Re: Gmail with IMAP

From: S Moonesamy <sm+mu_at_elandsys.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2015 15:40:15 -0700

Hi Ish,
At 13:33 27-03-2015, Ish Sookun wrote:
>Anybody using Gmail with an email client such as Thunderbird? If
>yes, do you use IMAP or POP? Now, in case of IMAP are you happy with
>syncing speed.

The disadvantage with IMAP is that the synching speed is slow if you
do not have a good connection to the server, e.g. server outside
Mauritius. The advantage is that you can access your email from
multiple computers. You can use IMAP to only retrieve the headers of
the email messages. That is faster than if you want to take a quick
look at a large messages. POP3 is used when you want to keep your
emails on your computer instead of the server.

Regards,
S. Moonesamy
Received on Fri Mar 27 2015 - 22:41:50 PST