>> For me, the question of if IMAP is useful to you boils down to one >> question - Have you ever been in front of machine X and needed to read >> an email, but cannot since you downloaded it via POP to machine Y ? If >> yes, then IMAP is for you. If not, then I doubt imap will be any use to you. > > No, because I leave my POP mail on the server long enough to be read by both > of my computers. To be honest, this sounds to me just like a poor man's attempt at an implementation of imap using POP, and not a very good one. I don't get why you don't use IMAP instead, but each to their own ;) Chris