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POP3: Messages get sucked-down from server to a local client, like
Thunderbird. Server erases its copy immediately or after a period
of time.<br>
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IMAP: Message gets served up by server--usually to a browser--but
stays on server. <br>
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IMAP is the predominant method these days, (ostensibly) because you
can access the message indefinitely from any number of clients (I
wouldn't be surprised if the NSA prefers this, although they likely
sample everything moving across the Net).<br>
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I use both--POP3 and T-Bird at home, IMAP and browser at work--and
have the same issues with both.<br>
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The issues started for me after Mark had problems--IIRC he got
hacked--and he may have upgraded a few months ago.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/22/2015 6:30 PM, Greg Lemon
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<div><font face="Calibri">In my early days of participating in the
list, about 1999, it behaved for me as Bob described in his
original post, my response or original question would appear
minutes to many hours later, sometimes, actually fairly often,
answers would appear before questions. That all stopped for
me when Mark did one of his upgrades several years ago, and
now for the most part everything pops up quickly and in order
(for me at least). I have used roadrunner email since before
I started participating on the list, it uses a POP3 server (I
don't really know what that means other than I know Microsoft
keeps making it harder and harder to use POP3 email with each
new software iteration) using Windows Live Mail as my email
client.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Calibri">Anyway it has worked and played well
with the list for quite some time (unless Mark has been
pulling knobs pushing buttons behind the curtains like a
crazed Wizard of Oz to keep me going without my knowledge)
but I suppose if you aren't a Time Warner Cable subscriber it
isn't an option for you.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Calibri">Greg Lemon</font></div>
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