Re: [exim] imap vs pop contemplations

On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 11:01, Steinar Bang <sb@???> wrote:

> IMO POP is a mess that's better left on history's scrapheap. Even if
> you are just using POP-functionality, IMAP is a better protocol.
>

It might be a "better protocol" (though I can't really see how it is that,
when you're just using POP functionality), but it requires far more
resources on the server side because of its added complexity.

IMAP is far from ideal, but it's what we're stuck with.
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Jan