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[Paul Mora]

On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 12:27, Chris Aitken wrote:

> > My problem was that I wanted to access my email from any computer in the
> > house.  This included the Inbox.
> 
> But shouldn't the 'Inbox' be the same in every PC's mail client unless you uncheck
> 'Leave Messages on Server' (or whatever the setting is in your mail client)?

Yeah, you're right.  Forgot about that option. :-) The only thing you
really have to watch out for is not letting your Inbox grow too big. 
Your ISP may have a restriction as to how big your Inbox can get, and
once it hits that point, your mail may be rejected.  Sort of like with
Yahoo and Hotmail, you get something like 1Mb or so of space.  If you
exceed that, your email gets bounced.

> As per my explanation above you would be able to see the same mail over and over
> unless you uncheck 'Leave Messages on Server'. I'm not trying to be pompous or the
> Devil's Advocate. It's just that POP is doing for me everything that you say it
> should not. I probably will switch to IMAPI eventually, but things will have ot
> get more painful before I do. I sometimes wonder if IMAPI just delivers on the
> promises that POP makes. : )

Not really.  The only thing that option does with POP is remove the
"delete" command after the mail is downloaded.  POP is still a one-way
transfer protocol for downloading mail.  For your Inbox, you're getting
the same effect, more or less, just not very elegantly... :-)

> Yes, I can see that if I want to extend this
> leave-the-mail-on-the-server-so-that-all-mail-clients-can-see-it to multiple
> folders, maybe *that's* where I would need IMAPI.

I can't speak for everyone, but most people I know organize their email
into various folders, either by subject, or sender, or whatever.  With
IMAP, all the folders stay on the server, as well as your Inbox.  You
can create and delete folders, and copy mail into them, and everything
actually exists on the server side.

pm

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