[Wolves] Is IMAP better than POP?

[Mark Harrison]

Alex Willmer wrote:
> Dave Morley wrote:
>   
>> Is IMAP better than POP and if so why please?
>>   
>>     
> POP3: [... ] Protocol is better suited to slow links such as dialup or
> GPRS.

Alex,

Interested to hear you say that. My experience has been that, given I 
get a reasonable number of files with attachments in the average day, 
when I'm on the road (and therefore on a slow link), the slightly higher 
network overhead of IMAP is trumped by the fact that IMAP can just read 
the headers, and then let me decide whether I _want_ to download that 
thunking great Powerpoint that someone thinks I need.


M.