"The Great Debate" - POP vs IMAP (fork of Mail Problems)

[Dan Lowe]

On Oct 5, 2006, at 12:38 PM, David Zhou wrote:

> IMO, POP is only simpler if you consistently use a single machine  
> to check your email.
>
> I juggle between work and home machines, and syncing up email would  
> be a pain if not for IMAP.

IMAP is attractive to me for several reasons:

1) Another backup of mail, if your machine goes kaput, your mail is  
still online and available.

2) Because it's still available, if you are not near your machine,  
you can usually get to it from any web browser, including all of your  
folders.

3) As David mentions above, it's a must for people with multiple  
machines.

  -dan

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