schittli Posted December 3, 2003 Posted December 3, 2003 Hello! Do you have any plans to support IMAP for reading eMails? Thanks a lot in advance, kind regards, Thomas Schittli Quote
TCH-Don Posted December 3, 2003 Posted December 3, 2003 From the Hosting Plans page SMTP and SendMail Support SMTP, IMAP and SendMail support is here!Total Choice Web Hosting provides each client with their own SMTP mail server. In addition, we offer support for Sendmail, a popular Unix-based implementation of the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP). For the advanced unix user we also offer full support for the IMAP protocol. Total Choice Web Hosting believes in giving the client total choice in the transfer of your mail. Quote
schittli Posted December 3, 2003 Author Posted December 3, 2003 From the Hosting Plans pageSMTP and SendMail Support ... Great! - thank you, I've stopped at the Web Hosting Plans and did not checked the details as I expected 'IMAP' somewhere in the general feature list... kind regards, Thomas Quote
DVDerek Posted December 11, 2003 Posted December 11, 2003 From the Hosting Plans pageSMTP and SendMail Support SMTP, IMAP and SendMail support is here!Total Choice Web Hosting provides each client with their own SMTP mail server. In addition, we offer support for Sendmail, a popular Unix-based implementation of the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP). For the advanced unix user we also offer full support for the IMAP protocol. Total Choice Web Hosting believes in giving the client total choice in the transfer of your mail. It's funny to me that you consider IMAP for the advanced Unix user. Why is IMAP Advanced and why would it be more attractive to Unix users than say, Mac OS users? Quote
TCH-Rob Posted December 11, 2003 Posted December 11, 2003 (edited) I cant speak from the TCH standpoint but I can say that I couldn't stand IMAP from a support pov. I like it as it is the same at every machine you sit at but, when users do not realize it isn't like regular POP mail, where the mail is downloaded to your machine and you can move on, trouble can start brewing. In POP mail you check your messages and everything is removed from the server, in most cases. I would get many calls stating that the mailbox was full when there were only three small messages in the inbox. When I explained that the two months of messages in the deleted items box weren't really gone and taking server space things sometimes got even more confusing for the customer because it didn't work that way at home. After explaining that you had to delete the deleted items more often on the IMAP because it is using server space and not hard drive space things got better. I say it is advanced due to the fact that if you know how to use UNIX you most likely know the differences between IMAP and POP and therefore how to use it effectively. That isn't to say that there aren't people smart enough to know the difference in the MAC/Windows environment. My thoughts and not TCH thoughts. Edited December 11, 2003 by TCH-Rob Quote
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