[imp] FETCH MAIL Option - POP vs IMAP

[Jan Schneider]

Zitat von Brian Leggee <brian at leggee.com>:

>
>
>   I have been using IMP for a while, to get mail off my hosting  
> company's Linux/Apache/Courier IMAP/QMail system.  I JUST realized  
> that, in my haste when setting up the Fetch account, that I selected  
> the type of mail as "POP" even though the mail is IMAP. 
>
>   Although everything seems to work fine, and I understand the  
> basics of POP (load mail onto your local computer) vs. IMAP  
> (Server-based) BUT I am not sure what to do ... by selecting POP in  
> the Fetch options, does IMP ignore my selection and treat the mail  
> as IMAP anyway? (looks this way, since I can see my mail in folder  
> from whatever computer I log in from). OR am I going to gain  
> anything by switching the Fetched Mail option to IMAP?

For fetchmail it really doesn't matter much which protocol you use.

Jan.

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