[Wolves] Is IMAP better than POP?

[Chris Fox]

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Kevanf1 wrote:
> On 29/10/2007, Chris Fox <chris at robotninja.net> wrote:
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>> Dave Morley wrote:
>>> Is IMAP better than POP and if so why please?
>> POP usually pulls the mail onto your PC and then deletes it off the
>> server, so you can only access your email from your main PC.
> 
> That would depend upon the mail client you are using on your PC.  I
> used to use Pegasus Mail on an old Win 2000 box way back when I used
> POP mail.  I could elect whether to delete from the server or not.  I
> have used similar with Linux.  I'm sure Kmail has this ability.  Yes,
> it was definitely POP mail not IMAP :-)
> 

Well that's why I said that POP "usually" pulls the mail onto your PC.

Cheers,

Chris
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