[GTALUG] POP3 vs IMAP

James Knott james.knott at jknott.net
Sat Jun 8 13:16:37 EDT 2019


On 2019-06-08 12:20 PM, Stephen via talk wrote:
>
> IMAP
> Allows multiple devices to access you emails
> Keeps messages on server
>
> POP
> Deletes messages on server when downloaded 

Which server?  When I ran my own IMAP server, I used fetchmail to
download & delete the messages from my ISP's server.  Of course, leaving
the messages on the IMAP server means they'll always be there for when
you get another device, use webmail from another computer, etc..




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