Re: PHP Web Mail

Justin Patrin wrote:

On Mon, 5 Jul 2004 13:01:08 -0400, John Hicks <johnlist@gulfbridge.net> wrote:

On Monday 05 July 2004 07:33 am, I.A. Gray wrote:

Thanks- looked at Squirrel Mail. Looks really good, however we use POP3- I don't think Squirrel Mail uses POP3 does it?

Most if not all web-based mail clients use IMAP since a web-based (i.e. browser-based) client can't store the received mail on the local computer the way a POP3-based email client does.

I'm not sure why there's all this talk about not using POP3. You can leave messages on the server with POP3 as well, it's just not as fully featured as IMAP. Some webmail clients *do* support POP3 while leaving the messages on the server. In fact, I think that the PHP functions are the same for both IMAP and POP. Very true. However to do the same with POP3 takes a lot more effort and I thought programmers are supposed to be lazy ;-)

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