[GTALUG] POP3 vs IMAP

Stephen stephen-d at rogers.com
Sat Jun 8 13:27:20 EDT 2019


On 2019-06-08 1:16 p.m., James Knott via talk wrote:
> 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..
> 

Some accounts are with Rogers/Yahoo

others are on my web server.

-- 
Stephen


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