What are the advantages of IMAP > versus POP ?
> Wayne D. Johnson Use-Case: “I need mobile mail” Summary: Well, I have a lot more than one computer now and I travel to clients/worklocations with my laptop which triple boots as well. POP does not keep state on your email and is usually instantly removed from the server to some “local machine”. You have to replicate it manually across each machine or laptop you may have, and it loses state of what is read or not read. At first this did not sound appealing to me, until I realized the benefits were ridiculous for my workflow. Benefits: 1) I have sent mail! First off, POP3 never let you save “sent” mail on every machine even if you did leave the messages on the server. “Sent” mail was always locally saved, and thus required manual synchronization or tied you down to one machine or one email client. IMAP’s stateful nature plus a good IMAP client lets you save a copy of your sent mail on the server. 2) Stateful mail! The same mail from every email client and any machine. You feel the same
