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have only just noticed that my isp does imap4 (been with them for over 10 years!!!) which you you suggest, there are times when i forget to back up my email or chance clients and having to convert the emails is a pain.
that sounds handy, but is there a limit on how many msgs can be kept on a server or would i have to download them from time to time ? ISP site not overly clear
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IMAP [Internet message access protocol]
It is a method of accessing E-mail messages that are kept on a mail server. In other words, it permits a "client" email program to access remote message stores as if they were local.
For example, email stored on an IMAP mail server can be manipulated from a desktop computer at home, a workstation at the office, and a notebook computer while travelling, without the need to transfer messages or files back and forth between these computers.
As an example, If you would like to access your email from home, your office, and a computer at a friend's home, you would generally want to use IMAP mail. This would mean that the same messages would be in your inbox regardless of where you logged into the mail server from (as using IMAP does not remove messages from your inbox when they are downloaded).
If you used POP3 instead, then whatever messages happened to be in your inbox at the time you check your mail would be downloaded to that particular computer ONLY, and would be removed from the mail server. When you checked your mail from another computer, the messages you had downloaded onto the other PC would not be available to you.
For this reason, POP3 mail access is not ideal for access from multiple computers since it tends to sprinkle messages across all of the computers used for mail access.that sounds handy, but is there a limit on how many msgs can be kept on a server or would i have to download them from time to time ? ISP site not overly clear
