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Comment by Garrett W. on October 6, 2009 at 9:58am

i use 2 separate gmail accounts instead :)

Comment by Nicholas Thomas Wright on October 5, 2009 at 1:53pm

I use gmail as my professional/family/friend account. My yahoo account gets all the website signups and spam :P

Comment by Hikaru Ichijyo on October 1, 2009 at 9:10pm

ello guys...

Comment by James Hill on July 18, 2009 at 12:12am

http://bit.ly/EkzQZ My latest blog post.

Comment by Dilyn Corner on July 13, 2009 at 12:22pm

Well, now that I know that, I understand why my messages in Thunderbird aren't in my inbox anymore. *changes server to imap*
Thanks.

Comment by Garrett W. on July 13, 2009 at 11:34am

no prob :)

Comment by Patrik Drevestedt on July 13, 2009 at 11:29am

Thank you very much for that indepth answer, very nicely explained.

Comment by Garrett W. on July 13, 2009 at 11:23am

In the current age of SaaS (software as a service), IMAP is more handy for a lot of people, because when you connect to an IMAP server, you're seeing exactly everything that is on the server, and working directly with it - and this extends to wherever you may be accessing your mail from.
With POP, you don't work directly with what's on the server. You connect and download messages to a single computer... so you might have emails on your home computer that have been downloaded and deleted from the server, but you can't access them from anywhere but that single computer.
Basically, with POP, if you ever access your email from more than one PC, things can get out of sync REALLY easily.
Plus, with POP, you definitely won't have access to emails that you've SENT from your home PC when you're anywhere else.

Comment by Patrik Drevestedt on July 13, 2009 at 10:24am

@ Garrett W: Why is IMAP better?

Comment by Garrett W. on July 11, 2009 at 6:27pm

IMAP is better than POP3, if you can use it.
imap.google.com

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