[Wolves] Is IMAP better than POP?

[Dave Morley]

On Tue, 2007-10-30 at 15:21 +0000, Chris Fox wrote:
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> Chris Maggs wrote:
> > It is possible to telnet to the POP server and view headers only and
> > delete any unwanted (or huge!) emails before downloading them;
> > although I assume this method would be a bit to much of an overkill
> > for most users.
> > 
> > Incidentally, I used to work for NTL (now VirginMedia) broadband
> > support in Swansea and although our mail servers were POP based the
> > majority of users used the webmail front end rather than Outlook
> > Express or Entourage (we didn't support Linux!) for two reasons.  The
> > first was that they could get their mail from anywhere they wanted so
> > long as they had an internet connection. The second was as we only had
> > 9 minutes and 41 seconds to "get them off the phone" (official
> > terminology!) it was far easier to point them towards the webmail page
> > that try and setup their mail client.  This obviously resulted in
> > overfilled mail servers which crashed and died at regular intervals -
> > and still do from what I've been told!
> 
> Stories like this are what make me so glad I pay (only a little bit, 69p
> a month) for a hosted mail server rather than use my ISP :D
> 
> Of course, Gmail now supports IMAP as well as POP so there's even a
> choice for free users.
> 
That was the reason for my question.  I'm a gmail user but still need to
access my mail from http:// at times.

IMAP is better for me :)  I have set up the imap account and now I can
again access my mail via http:// and phone pop seemed to make them
disappear even though they were still there so now I'm happy thanks for
the info guys :)
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Seek That Thy Might Know
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