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| Thread ID: 134452 | 2013-07-02 12:39:00 | Imap vs Pop3 - your preference? | Nomad (952) | PC World Chat |
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| 1347763 | 2013-07-02 12:39:00 | I've just been using Gmail as my first webmail on a regular basis. It's convenient that with a single logon you can get all the products synced to your device(s). I'm not too sure about using it for my primary email address however. I use MS Outlook and the IMAP is so much slower when it needs to sync folders. Not tons of emails, they're just text really or HTML but it takes a good minute. Pop3 mail was just so fast. Download and I could what I wanted with MS Outlook. | Nomad (952) | ||
| 1347764 | 2013-07-02 12:42:00 | IMAP is a heck of a lot better than POP3, but I've missed EAS since Google decided to be prats and turn it off. | pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 1347765 | 2013-07-02 19:37:00 | Pop for me | gary67 (56) | ||
| 1347766 | 2013-07-02 23:58:00 | IMAP is very handy, but the speed (well slowness) of it when a lot of folders are setup frustrates me. | wratterus (105) | ||
| 1347767 | 2013-07-03 01:26:00 | If your client checks and syncs every folder on every mailcheck then yes it will be slow. Check the settings available in your mail client. I find thunderbird makes an excellent imap client. Server side indexing and searching and multi-device (and multi-user) access is really where it shines. For a single user on one device POP3 probably makes more sense. |
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| 1347768 | 2013-07-03 09:52:00 | If anybody can find a tune for imap goes the weasel, I may start using it. Not yet though. | R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 1347769 | 2013-07-03 10:46:00 | Pop for Me too. | Cicero (40) | ||
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