POP3 vs IMAP answered. MAILDROP asked.

Tue Sep 23 20:16:03 UTC 2003

On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 07:37:00PM -0400, Alan Cohen wrote:
> IMAP is a most elegant protocol. It is far better from what I've heard
> and personally witnessed than POP3. (Its surprising lack of wider
> acceptance may be due to ISP reluctance: Afterall, IMAP invites you to
> leave messages on the server which ISPs probably don't relish.)

True, although some do offer imap accounts now.

> IMAP puts each message into its own file.

No, Maildir does, IMAP has nothing to do with how mail is stored.
UW-IMAP works with both mbox and Maildir (although its Maildir support
is terrible and broken.)  Courier works only with Maildir, although many
mail server's can deal with that.  I am sure there are other mbox
capable imap servers too.

Lennart Sorensen
--
The Toronto Linux Users Group.      Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org
TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns
How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml