[X4U] Can Apple's Mail pick up GMail?

Christopher Rob JONES christopher.rob.jones at cern.ch
Fri Oct 3 00:50:03 PDT 2008


>> 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


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