Comments on: Gmail- Grrrrr http://pthree.org/2006/12/07/gmial-grrrrr/ Linux. GNU. Freedom. Fri, 17 May 2013 20:46:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6-beta2-24176 By: Anonymous http://pthree.org/2006/12/07/gmial-grrrrr/#comment-126145 Anonymous Wed, 15 May 2013 06:53:10 +0000 http://www.pthree.org/2006/12/07/gmial-grrrrr/#comment-126145 SHARIK

]]> By: Aaron http://pthree.org/2006/12/07/gmial-grrrrr/#comment-20768 Aaron Fri, 08 Dec 2006 03:40:15 +0000 http://www.pthree.org/2006/12/07/gmial-grrrrr/#comment-20768 IMAP gives you the ability to synchronize your email with different computers. For example, with my Gmail account, I should be able to use an email client at home to retrieve my email, then use one at work to retrieve the SAME email. In other words, if I sent an email to you, and you replied, then at home, I would receive your message. With IMAP, when I get to work, I can retrieve the exact same message. With POP, I can’t.

POP looks to see if the message has already been downloaded. If it has, it won’t download it again. So, if I got your reply at home, I wouldn’t be able to retrieve the same reply at work. So, my email client at home will have downloaded different messages from my account than the client at work. This isn’t the case with IMAP.

IMAP is the way to go for this very reason.

As for SMTP, that is just your outgoing mail protocol. It’s just used for sending mail, not for downloading.

]]> By: Ubuntu Tutorials http://pthree.org/2006/12/07/gmial-grrrrr/#comment-20724 Ubuntu Tutorials Thu, 07 Dec 2006 21:50:38 +0000 http://www.pthree.org/2006/12/07/gmial-grrrrr/#comment-20724 What is wrong with the current method they’re offering? I should mention I’m not completely familiar with the differences in IMAP, POP, SMTP, etc.. are there some good advantages that we are all missing out on?

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