--On 14 November 2007 13:26:22 +0200 Joon Radley <joon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > In IMAP this gets a bit blurred as the INBOX is also > the mechanism for receiving new mail. No, an INBOX is simply a mailbox. It's a place that you can deliver email to, and read email from. With the right delivery agent, it's possible to deliver email to any mailbox, so there's nothing particularly special about the INBOX except that it's the default mailbox. It would be a bit stupid to deliver email to a place that you can't read it, or vice versa. > Using the POP3 moves the mail from the > IMAP4 INBOX to the Outlook Inbox. So, now we have to say "In POP3 this gets a bit blurred as the Outlook inbox is also a mechanism for receiving new mail". Heck, wherever you read the email, it got delivered there by some means. -- Ian Eiloart IT Services, University of Sussex x3148 ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
