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Re: [PLUG] OT: Comparing POP3 and IMAP
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I was thinking of replying the same way, but decided thay your topic was
your topic. Paul is right, though. Actual speed -- which can be
affected by many things other than your protocol -- is one of the least
significant reasons to choose between POP and IMAP. Paul did a good job
listing the more significant reasons. I'd recomment your paper focus on
those reasons.
Paul wrote:
What is more important to a user, the actual time or the perception of time?
IMAP seams faster if, for the moment, you choose not to read every
message that comes in. The message headers download very fast. Only
the selected messages download completely. So, if you are on a slow
link and don't want to download that message with a 5Meg attachment,
you can skip or delete it quickly. If you want to run through all
messages quickly, then POP seams faster.
So, the actual time is not really a concern for me. The perceived
time is, dependent on my reading style. There are more important
features of IMAP which make it superior to POP. The ability to check
mail from multiple computers without having local mailboxes getting
out of sync. The benefit of not losing mail if the client computer
crashes since the mail is kept on the server which is also backed up.
Maybe more secure.
From the server side, I think POP is better since the messages are
removed from the server when they are viewed. But, actually, drive
space is pretty cheap, so it might not matter.
Given a choice, I would always choose IMAP. As far as the actual
statistics of sending and recieving, I don't know and it really
doesn't matter to me.
Bradley Molnar wrote:
Hi all-
for a class project, I am supposed to compare pop3 and IMAP. We are
supposed to compare anything we can find out about them. I was planning on
comparing speeds of sending/retrieving e-mail and how long it takes, throw
in a bit of statistics, etc.
What I wanted to ask the group was this -- how would you go about comparing
the two protocals. Would you use a regular client and a stopwatch
(which is
currently the fall-back plan), or, is there a mail client that can be
configured to use both pop3 and imap that has a self timing system.
thanks for your time and advice
-brad
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