[X-Unix] Re: CL Usenet and email

[Timothy Luoma]

On Apr 16, 2005, at 5:34 PM, James Bucanek wrote:

> I admit where IMAP can be really useful for someone who accesses their 
> mail from multiple locations (like a home and work computer).  And if 
> I were in that situation, I might consider setting up an IMAP account 
> to do that.  But outside of that advantage, IMAP simply takes 
> everything that a good POP client can do and gets in the way.

Indeed.  Being able to mark read/delete mail from my handheld or 
webmail or Mail.app is the only way I'd manage my email anymore.  Major 
timesaver, even on a dialup.  Seems like your mail client might have 
been poorly configured.

But yes if you are accessing from one machine and never ever want to 
switch mail programs, go POP.  IMAP lets me also use as many different 
clients as I want, which is nice when I want to test something new.

TjL