alt Hacker NewsNot at all. IMAP can do a lot of complex operations on the email while leaving it on the server, for example you can have the server search the email, flag it (mark it important, or read, or unread).
POP can download the email, and that's about it.
Not at all. IMAP can do a lot of complex operations on the email while leaving it on the server, for example you can have the server search the email, flag it (mark it important, or read, or unread).
POP can download the email, and that's about it.
Yeah, because then the client can do whatever it wants with the messages. The operations don't need any further support from the protocol.