At 04:24 AM 9/8/2003 +0800, Shelby Moore wrote: >>At 11:51 AM 9/7/2003 +0800, you wrote: >>>You can get mail no matter where you are with a POP account also. >> >>shelby, that's actually not true. If you have an enterprise email service >>that requires access to a VPN and the internet service you access it with >>(e.g hotel room ethernet) has a bad firewall configuration, you may never >>get to the mail. I speak with personal experience - the hotel I am in right >>now has screwed up its firewall. I ended up having to find an 802.11 hotspot >>to get to my email. > >I understand but that was not my point. My point is that you can put a web-based interface on top of your POP account to access it any where. You still have a POP account which you are accessing any where if that is what you want. The web-based interface is just another form of an email client. that's different - what you said was as quoted above. I agree that if you design the web server properly, you can use a web interface, but you run the risk that with this design, you may never be able to pull the email later, POPStyle, into your computer. Although it is theoretically possible, using POP (rather than IMAP) to leave the mail on the server until you pull it again with POP, many servers appear to clear out the mail after POPing it. I think John Klensin made that observation in an earlier exchange. >The point is that you don't need to use a web-based email without an underlying POP account in order to access email from any where. There are even places where HTTP web-based interface won't work (e.g. cell phone) and so you need to use a different form of email client to access. Still you can have an underlying POP account that mail is being drawn from. see above. v Vint Cerf SVP Technology Strategy MCI 22001 Loudoun County Parkway, F2-4115 Ashburn, VA 20147 703 886 1690 (v806 1690) 703 886 0047 fax vinton.g.cerf@mci.com www.mci.com/cerfsup