[Wolves] Is IMAP better than POP?

[Alex Willmer]

Mark Harrison wrote:
> Alex Willmer wrote:
>> 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, 
I rearely get emails with attachments, so didn't consider it.
> 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. 
The headers only behaviour of IMAP is nice. POP3 can be made to do it
with certain clients, but support is sporadic. Alex.