Why POP3 Email Instead of IMAP?
From Jonathan White: Nice article on email (8 Free POP3 Email Options), but why not IMAP? So much more useful for those of use that access email from more than one place because the mail stays on the server and all locations are in sync. I use fastmail.fm – check it out Jonathan Hi Jonathan, I can appreciate how that aspect of IMAP would appeal to users who access their mail from different locations frequently. My preference for POP 3 is to a large degree due to the fact that I like to have my email archives on my hard drive without the necessity of an Internet connection to access them. Broadband is still not available where I live, so I’m stuck with a dialup connection, and in mobile mode one is not always (or, in this neck of the woods, very often) in range of a WiFi hotspot. Gmail and several other webmail services also support POP 3 with the option of leaving copies of downloaded messages on the server, which isn’t quite the always-synchronized solution that IMAP offers, but it is
