IMAP vs Pop3
Ow Mun Heng
ow.mun.heng at wdc.com
Fri Dec 19 00:58:52 UTC 2003
Dang.. Didn't finish what I wanted to say.. Sorry.. (smiling meekly)
As I was saying..
I know this is a Stupid and probably get asked to 'RTFM' or
"google" it up.. But since I don't have a I-Net conn right now
This mail-list is the best I've got.
So.. Question.
Differences between pop3 & Imap.
I'm running a pop3 server which fetches mail from my Corp Exchange
acc into Linux using fetchmail.
Then I'm getting my emails from the LInux server to my desktop using
outlook. (yah.. I had to use M$ at work) The thing here is, it's
pretty darn slow. Overnight, mails from this list gets to like 100+
and pulling it via pop3 will take like 1 hour! (for under 1 MB of
mail!) I'm not sure what's slowing things up.
(I used pop3 and pop3s.. both were the same)
Hence, thinking maybe IMAP would help. Is IMAP the type where
you could Browse & read emails from the server and _not_ DL it
to the local machine? BUt if wanted, I could just Drag & Drop??
Maybe that would be quicker.
Thanks,
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ow Mun Heng
> Sent: Friday, December 19, 2003 8:54 AM
> To: 'fedora-list at redhat.com'
> Subject: IMAP vs Pop3
>
>
> Hi All,
>
> I know this is a Stupid and probably get asked to
> 'RTFM' or "google'
>
> Cheers, .^.
> Mun Heng, Ow /V\
> H/M Engineering /( )\
> Western Digital M'sia ^^-^^
> DID : 03-7870 5168 The Linux Advocate
>
>
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