[X4U] What Is IMAP ?

[Daly Jessup]

At 1:26 PM -0700 5/3/06, David Flory wrote:

>As a followup to Randy's info' there is an application called 
>POPmonitor which lets you do IMAP type stuff on a POP server. It 
>grabs the headers of e-mail that is there and lets you check just 
>that and decide whether to delete, bounce, download, block or 
>whitelist msg.s there. Nice little program with filters, etc.

I use MailSiphon for this purpose. For instance, sometimes someone 
has a big email stuck on their server, making their mail frozen, 
unable to download. I use MailSiphon to simply acces the mail on 
their POP server, and delete any obviously overlarge messages with 
attachments, and their mail is then miraculously able to function 
again.
POP Monitor probably does exactly the same thing.

You can also usually set your email client to "leave mail on server" 
for a set amount of time, and so get some of the advantages of IMAP: 
you can see the mail from one location and later, the mail is still 
there, availalble to be downloaded to your main computer.

Daly
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