Xref: utzoo comp.protocols.tcp-ip:10685 comp.sys.mac:51300 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!intercon!news From: amanda@mermaid.intercon.com (Amanda Walker) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip,comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Consider IMAP instead of POP Message-ID: <1990Mar24.193316.18750@intercon.com> Date: 24 Mar 90 19:33:16 GMT References: <6344@blake.acs.washington.edu> <325@spt.entity.com> Sender: news@intercon.com (USENET The Magnificent) Reply-To: amanda@mermaid.intercon.com (Amanda Walker) Organization: InterCon Systems Corporation, Sterling, VA Lines: 20 In article <325@spt.entity.com>, gz@spt.entity.com (Gail Zacharias) writes: > There is one thing that IMAP understands that POP doesn't, and that is that I > want to KEEP MY MAIL ON THE SERVER. I don't want to delete it from the server > just because I'm reading it on a mac! This depends some on the POP client, though... at least one (ours :-)) lets you select whether you want to acknowledge with ACKD (which deletes the message from the server) and ACKS (which keeps ("saves") it in your mailbox on the server). IMAP2 does look like a good compromise between the bare simplicity of POP and the almost OSI-grade complexitude of PCMAIL, though :-). -- Amanda Walker InterCon Systems Corporation "Dans la vie y'a des hauts pis des bas, des choses qui sont et d'autres qui ne sont pas." --Lucie Blue Tremblay