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Re: what is the benefit of imap? Another meta-question.



Hi,

* Joost Kremers wrote:

so the "leave mail on server" option that most pop-clients have is
certainly not a convenient way to access your mail remotely from different
locations.

Plus: POP needs locking, i.e. only one client at a time can access the
mailbox which implies that tools should not perform time-consuming tasks
while they have a POP session open.

Rocco