Official Gmail Blog: Getting Gmail anywhere: IMAP versus POP
Mozilla Thunderbird and Microsoft Outlook are two well known e-mail clients. What you may not know though is that they both can be configured to use IMAP technology. There are two kinds of widely used e-mail technologies, POP and IMAP. POP simply accesses your e-mail and let's you manipulate your various messages. IMAP lets you do the same thing only it can also communicate back to the mail server. This means if you delete or read a message with an IMAP client, the appropriate action occurs on the mail server. Google is stressing their support of IMAP over POP on their Gmail blog.
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I've been using IMAP for approximately one and a half year now, mainly because I want my mails to be synced on every device, under every OS. As a client I use Thunderbird. But now I'm thinking of changing back to POP, because one great disadvantag of IMAP is how it manages attachements: to simply display the content of a message, Thunderbird downloads the whole message including the attachement and afterwards shows its content - this takes lots of time. I tend to detach files to avoid this behaviour but this is not how it should work, because normally I'd like to see and download my attachements anywhere. I don't know if this is a drawback of Thunderbird or the protocol itself.
Any suggestions are welcome!
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