[PLUG] Which POP3 server?

[Mark Turner]

On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 18:32:37 -0700 (PDT), Andrew Munkres <amunk at pdx.edu> wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Oct 2004, Mark Turner wrote:
> 
> > One of the major diffrenced between the two is how mail is stored.
> > POP3 downloads the mail to your local system for viewing and IMAP
> > keeps the mail on the server.
> 
> Not necessarily. IMAP can be used to delete messages from the server, and
> POP3 doesn't force you to delete messages from the server. For example,
> fetchmail behaves much the same regardless of which protocol is being
> used.
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Well in general the idea behind POP was to have the end user download
the mail to thier local machine. And i never said the user could not
delete, i was just stating the ideas behind using the two protocols.


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