Re: [PLUG] POP vs. IMAP...which is better?

[Magnus <chrish@trilug.org>]

On Thursday, June 19, 2003, at 03:35 PM, Marc Zucchelli wrote:

> My question is, why do
> I never hear of anybody using it.

People tend to get stuck in a rut I guess.

> All of the webhosts
> out there offer "POP3 email accounts" but no IMAP.

Well truth is if you connect to the imap port, there is often an imap 
daemon listening (but the ISP doesn't advertise this).

IMAP is much harder on the server than POP and thus more expensive to 
maintain.

Also, what I'm increasingly finding when I talk to ISP techies, they 
either don't know or don't care about doing things better.  I guess the 
margins have gotten pretty lean or something and you find ISP's doing 
just what they have to in order to satisfy the ignorant masses.

--

C. Magnus Hedemark
"From the Fury of the Norsemen please Deliver us, Oh Lord"

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