Author: Ricardo Gibert
Date: 19:15:02 04/01/04
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On April 01, 2004 at 21:46:08, Russell Reagan wrote: >On April 01, 2004 at 21:27:02, Ricardo Gibert wrote: > >>Can you give some examples? > >If you use a POP3 email account, and you get a huge attachment in an email, and >you are on dialup, your email client will attempt to download the entire message >before it will download any further emails. So you have to wait to download a >huge file. If your ISP is bad like AOL (at least in the past) and you get >disconnected every 15 minutes, you may never get any new emails again. > >I was told a story like this by my unix professor. One top executive of a >company was on vacation in Hawaii, and he tried to dial in to check his email. >Someone else in the company sent him a huge attachment of a presentation or >something, and the connection would not stay active long enough for him to >download that email, so he couldn't get any of his email until he got back from >vacation. The point of the story was to demonstrate the advantages of an IMAP >email account over a POP3 account. IMAP only downloads the headers until you >want to read the message. POP3 downloads the entire message whether you want to >read it or not. This simply isn't true. Foxmail will only download headers if you ask it to. There are others that work this way too. Besides, the size limitations of, for example, free @hotmail or free @yahoo accounts are small enough for this to not be an issue.
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