IMAP vs Pop3
Colin Charles
linux at bytebot.net
Wed Dec 24 09:57:37 UTC 2003
On Fri, 2003-12-19 at 01:58, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> I'm running a pop3 server which fetches mail from my Corp Exchange
> acc into Linux using fetchmail.
This in itself isn't a POP3 server I should think. You're just running
fetchmail in daemon mode to grab stuff from exchange into your account
on the Linux box.
> Then I'm getting my emails from the LInux server to my desktop using
> outlook. (yah.. I had to use M$ at work) The thing here is, it's
> pretty darn slow. Overnight, mails from this list gets to like 100+
> and pulling it via pop3 will take like 1 hour! (for under 1 MB of
> mail!) I'm not sure what's slowing things up.
1 hour for POP3 based e-mail message downloads? Is your link really slow
or something? Even on dialup, and the sheer amount of e-mails I get, I
POP all my mail and it doesn't take that long (of course, I'm not
usually on dialup, but getting in like 4-5megs of mail per POP for all
different accounts doesn't take longer than 15 minutes? Probably
less...)
> Hence, thinking maybe IMAP would help. Is IMAP the type where
> you could Browse & read emails from the server and _not_ DL it
> to the local machine? BUt if wanted, I could just Drag & Drop??
Somewhat. It just grabs headers basically.
> Maybe that would be quicker.
Doubtful... Why your POP3 gets are so slow is a wonder though.
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