From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 29 19:55:36 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7944437B400 for ; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 19:55:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ns2.austclear.com.au (ns2.austclear.com.au [192.43.185.70]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41BC643E3B for ; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 19:55:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ahl@austclear.com.au) Received: from tungsten.austclear.com.au (tungsten.austclear.com.au [192.168.166.65]) by ns2.austclear.com.au (8.11.2/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g7U2tQt57996; Fri, 30 Aug 2002 12:55:27 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from ahl@austclear.com.au) Received: from tungsten (tungsten [192.168.166.65]) by tungsten.austclear.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA20724; Fri, 30 Aug 2002 12:55:27 +1000 (EST) Message-Id: <200208300255.MAA20724@tungsten.austclear.com.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: "Mike Woods" Cc: "FreeBSD Questions" Subject: Re: Webmail Questions In-Reply-To: Message from "Mike Woods" of "Fri, 30 Aug 2002 03:30:40 +0100." <3D6ED8D0.00000F.01928@MegaLord> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 12:55:26 +1000 From: Tony Landells Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Well... My ISP uses IMP (from http://horde.org/imp/) which uses PHP scripts to interact with an IMAP server. From home, I use an IMAP client. IMAP is very good for this sort of stuff. Now if I read messages from work using webmail, the messages show up at home as being read, but they're still there for me to look at and unmark if I want. Similarly if I mark them as "deleted" using my client at home, webmail shows them as being deleted (and either displays them "struck out" or doesn't display them, depending on which option I've chosen). Since IMAP has a concept of folders in the protocol, I can leave all the stuff I want to read at home in my INBOX. Once I get home, I can do all the filing of messages (at which point IMAP removes the messages from the INBOX). POP can in theory behave similarly by using the "leave messages on server" option that most clients support, but it isn't managed nearly as well as by the IMAP protocol. It kind of depends what protocol you're using for reading mail. Tony -- Tony Landells Senior Network Engineer Ph: +61 3 9677 9319 Australian Clearing Services Pty Ltd Fax: +61 3 9677 9355 Level 4, Rialto North Tower 525 Collins Street Melbourne VIC 3000 Australia To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message