What are IMAP and POP?
IMAP and POP are two of the ways that dedicated email clients such as Microsoft Outlook or Eudora can interact with a mail system. Most email clients support both methods of operation and you can choose the one that suits you best. Herald allows both access methods as well as via Webmail. Many commercial systems will only offer one of these access methods, however. • POP is geared to fetching your new mail from a remote system and storing it on your local machine. The remote copy is normally then deleted automatically, although POP mail clients can usually be configured to retain a copy on the central system. POP is good for people wanting the minimum length of connection (e.g. over a phone line) and who want to work offline as much as possible, and on the same computer. However, once downloaded, messages will not be viewable from elsewhere. • IMAP is geared to giving you a view of a remote email repository. Messages and folders normally reside on a remote system such as Herald, althou
