[imp] IMP Slow on POP3

Michael M Slusarz slusarz at bigworm.colorado.edu
Thu Apr 29 10:46:25 PDT 2004


Quoting Luis Galan <imp at es.clara.net>:

>>   The older versions of IMP would completely ignore these changes, 
>> so that is
>> why you could suddenly find yourself pushed back to the INBOX, even though
>> there were 5-6 messages unread at the end of the message you just
>> viewed.
>
> I see..
> Attaching files takes a long time, sometimes fails. Is it the same
> reason? or Could it be another problem?
>
>> It all boils down to the fact that POP3 is *NOT* a good way to remotely read
>> email, especially through a webmail system.
>
> Could you tell me any good imap server for freebsd?

Courier-IMAP, Cyrus, UW-IMAP, and dovecot should all work with freebsd and are
all freely available.

michael

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Michael Slusarz [slusarz at bigworm.colorado.edu]
The University of Colorado at Boulder


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