| POP The
current champ in Internet email mailbox access standards, but its
limitations--basically, you connect to a server and download all your
messages, which are then deleted from the server--discourage flexibility.
Of course, some clients let you leave all messages on the server, and/or
refuse to download messages above a certain size. Still, as messages
become longer--with multimedia (such as sound or video) objects and the
likes--we'll want some flexibility in what we retrieve and when we
retrieve it. That's where IMAP comes in. The current version of POP is
POP3. |