Qualcomm 4.3 user manual Mailbox and Folder Management POP vs. Imap

Mailbox and Folder Management: POP vs. IMAP Eudora User Manual

prompted, or click Remove all to remove all items selected for deletion and no further prompts will appear. Or click Cancel to cancel the deletion. If you delete a non-empty mailbox or folder, all messages, mailboxes, and folders contained within the mailbox or folder are also deleted.

Mailbox and Folder Management: POP vs. IMAP

The location of your mailboxes and mail folders depends on whether your incoming mail server for your account uses the POP or IMAP protocol.

If your incoming mail server uses POP, then all of your mailboxes and mail folders are created and stored on your computer. If your incoming mail server uses IMAP, then all of your mailboxes and mail folders are created and stored on the IMAP server.

The parallel situation holds true if you have multiple email accounts: mailboxes and folders for all of your POP accounts are stored on your computer; mailboxes and folders for all of your IMAP accounts are stored on the respective IMAP servers.

Mail folders stored on an IMAP server can contain not only mailboxes, but also messages. Mail folders stored on a POP server can contain only mailboxes, not messages.

You create an IMAP server account using the New Account Setup wizard for your domi- nant personality, or using the Account Settings dialog box accessed from the Personalities window. See “Getting Started” on page 197 and “Using Multiple Personalities” on page 75. Click the page number to display the topic.

The Mailboxes window is the main tool for managing your IMAP mailboxes and mail folders. In the Mailboxes window, right-click one of the folders or mailboxes in an IMAP hierarchy and select an item from the drop-down list. See “Using the Mailboxes Window” on page 101 for more information. Click the page number to display the topic.

Note. The additional commands for IMAP are “Refresh Mailbox List” and “Resynchronize Mailbox.”

Some mailboxes stored on your IMAP server may have been created by others and made accessible to you. For some of these mailboxes, you may have both “read and write” permission; that is, you can read the messages stored in them, can change or delete the messages. Other mailboxes may give you only “read” permission; you can only read the messages, not change or delete them.

If you have multiple personalities (email accounts) and the incoming mail servers for all of them use POP, then you will have only one top-level mail folder, named “Eudora Mail” by default. If the incoming mail server for at least one of your personalities uses IMAP, then you can have multiple top-level mail folders; one to hold mail from all of your POP account, and one top-level folder for each of your IMAP accounts. The name of a top-level IMAP folder is the personality name for that IMAP account.

For more information on managing your mail on POP and IMAP servers, see “Managing Your Mail on the POP Server” on page 55 and “Managing Your Mail on the IMAP Server” on page 59. Click the page number to display the topic.

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