And yes, of course, you can keep some of your mailboxes on your personal computer, although these local mailboxes will not be managed by IMAP . You can even move messages to and from the server machine. IMAP allows you to use different email programs from different locations. Use Eudora from the office and at home, Netscape at a friend's house, or telnet to tigger when you're traveling and use pine . IMAP works well over slow Internet connections.
Information is sent in small pieces and only as needed.
Instead of sending a copy to everyone and perhaps duplicating efforts, send them to one person, who saves them in a special mailbox on the server. IMAP will allow everyone who needs the mailbox to access it at the same time. The main advantage that POP has over IMAP is that there are currently more, better, friendlier POP email client software programs available. And now comes my confession. PC Pine is exactly like UNIX pine .