Re: [SLE] imap -- what is it?

From: Steve Graegert (graegerts_at_gmail.com)
Date: 10/18/05

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    On 10/18/05, DBA <DBA@williamson.net.au> wrote:
    > Howzit Chadley?
    >
    > Its is basically a mail server that you can access your mail from any
    > compatible mail client. An example of why you'd want to use it is, you access
    > your email via a desktop at home but can also access it at work or while
    > you're on holiday or business overseas.

    IMAP (Internet Mail Access Protocol) provides for services to store
    emails in a more flexible fashion compared to POP3. With IMAP
    messages are not downloaded to your local computer. You can read,
    write and delete emails with an IMAP-enabled client, but all
    operations take place on the remote machine. The main advantage over
    other techniques is that you can do email with any IMAP client from
    any machine that has access to the Internet. This especially useful
    for people who work at different locations (probably with their
    laptops) and get their user profile (with IMAP access configured) from
    a server. With POP3 for example, unless not configured otherwise, all
    mail is downloaded to the local computer and thereby removed from the
    remote POP server. Another computer, your laptop for instance, will
    not have access to all the mail you just downloaded.

    Hope this gives you an idea of IMAP.

            \Steve 

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