The Friday 2003-12-19 at 13:10 -0600, Gary wrote:
E> Most ISP's use POP3 (or the major ones I know of) and POP3 is relatively E> simplistic I figured its a better choice to begin with.
What does an ISP have to do with using IMAP. Do you know why they use POP? Well, how about Earthlink having 10 million customers (whatever figure it is) store their unlimited mail boxes on their servers' hard drives instead of the customer's own computer ... I don't think so.. That is why they use POP..
Er... :-? I suppose a 10 MB remote mailbox uses the same disk space be it served as imap or pop3, and both will have size limit coded on them, somehow. Two or three years ago about 3/5 of my ISP accounts allowed imap. They didn't say so on their docs, but I tried and they worked, so I used imap instead of pop3 with them. But gradually, all of them removed the imap service. Why? I think that it uses more resources, as you may stay connected a longer time with the server, doing things manually. And I read somewhere that it poses a higher security risk, don't ask me why. It may be that they have to pay for the imap server: they will use some windows thing, or Unix, I suppose. From my logs I see that one of them used "Netscape Messaging Multiplexor" as imap server.
For your info, most Universities, e.g. Univ of Mich, use IMAP servers, as well as many large companies. IMAP also offers the benefit of shared folders.
Its a great thing for intranet use, IMO. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson