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

[Matt Ronge]

On Oct 5, 2006, at 9:32 AM, Jim Witte wrote:

>
>   POP just seemed a whole lot simpler to me.
>
> Jim

I use IMAP to access my e-mail anyway, anytime and it all goes to one  
account. Combine the availability with multiple mailbox's per account  
and server side filters, and you have a killer setup. Email for  
mailing lists like Mac OS X talk get filtered to a subfolder on my  
account, so all my important e-mail stays in my inbox and the rest  
gets sorted into server side mailboxes.

POP is a much easier protocol to develop with, and I think some of  
the slowness is due to the fact that it was designed for online usage  
(in fact, i wrote something about this if anyone is really  
interested: http://www.theronge.com/2006/06/05/where-are-the-kick-ass- 
e-mail-clients/)

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Matt