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Glenn Richards wrote:
Sorry Dave IMAP isn't like fetching your email with pop3 or smtp.
It is more like web mail where all your emails are held on a remote
server and not stored locally. When you want to read an email, even
one you read last week it as to be fetched again from the server.
Pluto cannot do this. It wasn't designed with this in mind.

I'm confused. If it's held on a remote server, presumably you read it
with a browser or dedicated software?

Ok... (puts layman's hat on)...

With POP3 you download your email onto your PC (or Mac, or Acorn,
whatever). It's then stored on your hard disk.

With IMAP all emails are stored in a central repository and are fetched
onto your computer when you open the message.

Yes, I sort of guessed that.

This might seem wasteful, having to transfer the whole message across
the network every time you want to open it. But imagine that you want to
access the same mailbox from your desktop PC, laptop, PDA, mobile phone
etc. You can.

I can see the point in that.

Which is exactly what I do. Thunderbird on the desktop PC and laptops,
the built in IMAP mail client on my phone (Nokia 9500), and if I want to
access emails from anywhere I can use webmail, which is basically an
HTML wrapper around IMAP.

So basically you use your browser to view your e-mail? That was all I
really wanted to know.

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