POP3 to IMAP
Published October 20th, 2005 in GeneralI’m a member of a number of online mailing lists, which I have an e-mail address specifically for. I’ve connected to my e-mail mailing list account through POP3 and I then sort them using a e-mail client rules. However, i’ve gotten tired of waiting for hundreds of messages to downloaded everyday, now I have moved all of my rules server side and I’m using IMAP.
On my Dreamhost account, I have setup filters to direct all of my mail to different folders in my IMAP account. Mail for UIUC stuff gets filled into a folder, ACM stuff has a folder, Mac OS X Talk has a folder and etc. I have all of my e-mail being funneled into one account but parsed into seperate folders. So if I need to check e-mail anyway, I can just connect to my IMAP account and everything is at my fingertips, including my archive of e-mail. I’m hoping to eventually condense everything down into one e-mail address, sweet indeed.
Using Dreamhost I am trying the same thing. I agree it is much faster to download emails and I like being able to filter emails into folders on the server. Thjis allows me to check my email on a third party system and access ALL of my old and new emails in the proper folders. Very nice, and impressed.
Downside, is that now that is faster to download multiple emials, I think it is slower to go to old folers and very old emails. When you go to Folders you haven’t been to in a few days, it can take a few seconds for all the emails to appear. Plus, I haven’t been able to find any way to search through all the folders of email. Nothing very critical for me, but as my email folers on the Server build up, I wonder how slow is it going to get?
Yea, i’ve found that downloading e-mail is far faster now with IMAP subscriptions. If I don’t want to read a mailing list, I don’t have to, I can just load my inbox.
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