From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 29 19:42:53 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tt01.tech-trans.com (unknown [202.135.11.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2695515328 for ; Tue, 29 Jun 1999 19:42:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@sweda.com.hk) Received: from SMTP ([210.184.43.2]) by tt01.tech-trans.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.6) with SMTP id AAA459C; Wed, 30 Jun 1999 10:39:00 +0800 Received: from sweda.com.hk ([210.184.43.3]) by 210.184.43.2 (Norton AntiVirus for Internet Email Gateways 1.0) ; Wed, 30 Jun 1999 17:44:05 0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <3779886E.A3E0A725@sweda.com.hk> Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 11:01:02 +0800 From: "Peter Kok" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Keith Coles Cc: freebsd Subject: Re: imap & pop3 & web base mail References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello Keith and all Thank you very much for your kind help i would like to know more 1. how do i know that the my ISP uses POP or IMAP? Keith Coles wrote > POP3 - simple protocol, all your mail is delieverd to a remote mailbox, > your pop client copies it to your local system (it may or may not be > deleted from the mailbox host). Advantages, simple, widely supported by > clients both text & GUI on a variety of platforms. Disadvantages, simple, > no remote mailbox management, loss of delivery info (useful when tracing > the origin of a message, e.g. spam). > 2) it means that IMAP can trace the origin message, POP is not. but how to use IMAP to trace the origin message > > IMAP - more of a remote mailbox management protocol. Allows you to delete > or move messages between mailboxes in place, i.e. on the remote server. > Because your mail stays in place you can access your mailbox from multiple > clients, potentially from different sites. Advantages, better management > of remote mailbox, controlled download of attachments, folder management. > Disadvantges, the protocols a bit clunky though this can be hidden by a > good client. > 3) how imap to manage download of attchments, folder management could you suggest web for my study? and i don't understand this 'the protocols a bit clunky '! Could you expand to me in detail? > > Web mail - generally a bunch of cgi scripts that give you access to a > remote mailbox, e.g. Hotmail et al. Facilities depend on what the > developer decided to write in at the time. Whilst there is no standard > protocol as such, because the interface is Web based it can be accessed > from just about anything, usual stuff + Palm Pilots, Psion, Lynx text > browser........ > 4) Could you give me web for my study and how to setup thank you very much again > > Which is best ? > > > > > what is different between > > > > imap, pop3 and web base mail > > > > which is good and common? > > > > thank you for your advice > > > > best regards > > Peter > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message