It doesn't allow you to manage the mail on the server itself, instead you usually just download all mail to your local machine. With imap you can work with your mail while it's on the server and can create folders on the server in which to archive your mail. Thus the server itself can be the message store which is useful if you want to access your mail from more than one machine. You are not required to use the server to archive your mail with imap, you can use it like pop and download all the mail to your local machine. You can use smtp to send mail directly to the destination but typically this is not done because the destination machine may be down or unreachable at the time you wish to send the mail.
Most organizations have a local mail server that is up and reachable all of the time.
Franz Inc. Platform Allegro Common Lisp 5.0.1, 6.0 and 6.1 on all machines. Where these conflict, the preamble takes precedence. Documentation imap.html documents imap , pop , and smtp . Files There isn't a single tar or zip file containing all of the files. You should select the files you want to use and direct your web browser to save them on your disk.