Re: [TCLUG:14946] IMAP vs POP

[Nate Carlson <natecars@real-time.com>]

On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, Bob Tanner wrote:

> Quoting Scott Dier - dieman (dieman@ringworld.org):
> > On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, Bob Tanner wrote:
> > 
> > > I am looking for some real world stories on IMAP and how you like it,
> > > have you been hacked, why you are using it and what don't you like
> > > about it.
> > 
> > I use IMAP from debian potato/frozen.  I've never had 'hacking' issues
> > with it at all.  Redhat 5.x had some 'issues' with its included IMAP
> > daemon.
> 
> Just to make sure I understand the FAQ. Washington Edu's IMAP does both IMAP
> and POP, so it should be a drop-in replacement for qpopper?

Yup. Or, I believe you can disable the imap pop3 daemon and use qpopper..
but I'm not sure what the advantages/disadvantages of that would be, and
what kind of problems it could cause (anyone know how the imap daemon does
mailbox locking vs. how qpopper does it?)

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