On 6/8/19 12:05 PM, o1bigtenor via talk wrote:
Greetings
Working on setting up Claws - - an email handling tool and I need to choose whether I use POP3 or IMAP. What I've been able to find so far doesn't really give any kind of clear direction. I have lots of storage here and am planning on starting with my least used addresses just to make sure things are working well before I do a complete switch.
As a general rule only use IMAP. If you intend to leave your mail on the mail server then IMAP is just about manditory. IMAP also has a number of features not provided by POP. 1) server based mail search 2) multi client synchronization 3) multiple hierarchical folders 4) random access to messages without having to re-read the inbox. 5) IMAP servers usually support like Sieve for mail filtering. 6) write messages to a "sent" folder About 5 years ago I stopped supporting POP at all and my email clients must use IMAPS. -- Alvin Starr || land: (647)478-6285 Netvel Inc. || Cell: (416)806-0133 alvin@netvel.net ||