Who uses POP3 mail (e.g. Outlook)?

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I'm often asked to help people in marinas to help set up their wifi and email. I have been surprised at how few people use POP3 mail or know what it is and what it can do for them. So, out of interest, this is a survey...
 
how many ISP's support IMAP though. Better for business users who have servers that will cope with the quantity of mails stored there than for your average ISP where emails downloaded to hard drive.
 
Which application would you recommend to handle IMAP on laptops, PC and Mac? Does it interface readily with standard ISPs offerings, Hotmail and the other web-based email packages that also offer a POP3 service?
 
Is POP an acronym for "Point of Presence"? My teccies are forever talking about distance to the Point of Presence and its just occurred to me that POP and the aforementioned might be related?
 
Try Mulberry. Free, imap, pop3, OSX, Windows, Linux (and possibly Solaris), used by lots of universities because its less prone to malware than Outlook.

Not Brendan approved, no doubt (but you may think thats a good thing).

Rick
 
My company uses Lotus Notes. Its far more than just an email program though... we put all company databases on there, etc, etc.

And as I take the laptop home and have free personal use, hence on here, I also use the same email address etc for personal use.... just use their dial-in software and a VPN client and connect back into the company network/server. Gives access to work stuff aswell as internet/email - couldn't ask for anymore really.
 
I use thunderbird (pop3) on a USB stick to collect, but I can also collect and send from my web-based package on the server, how does that fit into the profile?
 
I do use pop.
I can also set another computer to pick up my mail if i need to.

I dont understand what pop is or how it works or why it is any different from anything else

Do i need to be "quite clear about what it is "?
 
I use a POP3 email server, but I wouldn't use Outlook (or IE) if you paid me!

I use Mozilla--Firefox as my browser, Thunderbird (POP) for email and newsgroups.. Firefox and Thunderbird have been rated the best by far...and so easy that even my 80 yr old neighbor was up and running almost immediately after I set 'em up for her.--and loves it. (Of course after AOL, she'd prob'ly love anything else!) Compatible with imap, OSX, Windows, Linux and any other OS.

And they're FREE: http://www.mozilla.org/products/mozilla1.x/

I also use Google's gmail service for my email. Secure...and also free. I can get my mail on their website from any computer when I'm away from home, download to Thunderbird at home.
 
Yes, I said "e.g. Outlook" because that is by far the market leader and many PCs are shipped with Outlook Express if MS Office is not installed. The idea was simply to help to explain what we are talking about.
 
On OSX, I have not found a better mail client for pop or imap than the 'standard' mac mail.app. I have fiddled with most of the others. But I confess to an irrational hatred of Thunderbird after struggling with a truly terrible early windows version. It may have got better. Any good reports ?
 
POP3 .... but hate Outlook .... in all versions

I use Eudora .....

I also use web-based for other such as addresses to give suspect web-sites / forms, or when travelleing and I have SMTP issues. Normally Auto-SMTP will sort the roving / relay side of sending ... but as in last trip - Hotel couldn't tell me the SMTP of their service .... so reverted to Web-based via their DSL ...

I only have one wish with Eudora .... to be able to embed as a watermark a graphic ... which it does not do. Otherwise - I find it streets ahead of anything else ...
I particularly like its handling of attachments. They all go into a special folder as attachments - not like outlook that hides them in temp areas ... With Eudora - you don't even need to save attachments - as you can find them easily without calling from the e-mail .... You also have serious filtering that works - along with Junk scoring etc.

I'm sure there are gong to be an odd few posts telling me I'm wrong ... but proof of the pudding they say !! I even tried latest Outlook recently for a while ... after being told that some of the areas I didn't like were better - after 2 weeks of sheer hell - went straight back to Eudora ... and bl***y outlook of course wouldn't export properly to Eudora - despite claims it does ...
 
mac.com uses imap and seems gloriously spam free. It is a charging service of course, but you get what you pay for in my opinion. It also gives a disk space you can use
 
Re: POP3 .... but hate Outlook .... in all versions

Another vote for Eudora. I have very slow web access on the boat (via GSM), except when in range of wifi, so I wanted to avoid webmail. Didn't have OE on the boat's laptop so tried Eudora and found it excellent.
 
Re: POP3 .... but hate Outlook .... in all versions

Kontact works in exactly the same way as Outlook.

And its free!
 
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