Ximian Evolution question

[Madison Kelly]

Is there a way to tell the IMAP server though to kill a message somehow?
I imagine there must be otherwise space would be chewed through in a
hurry. Is IMAP something like a web front-end, by chance?

Madison

On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 18:03, James Knott wrote:
> Madison Kelly wrote:
> > Can I ask, I am
> > almost ashamed to ask how IMAP differs from POP but it is something I
> > never considered but now you have piqued my interest!
> 
> With POP, the client software downloads the messages from the mail 
> server and usually deletes them from the server.  This means that if you 
> use more than one computer or mail client, your messages will not all 
> appear in any system.  With IMAP, the messages stay on the server, 
> though you can have local copies on the clients.  Because of this, you 
> can read your mail from any computer or client and it will have all your 
> messages.  I use IMAP on my main desktop system, and can access it from 
> any of my computers and mail clients, even on my notebook via VPN or 
> dial up.
> 
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