I was reading Photo Matt ? 0wn3d and I thought to myself: Do you use IMAP? I find IMAP to be ‘the bomb.’ POP3 is annoying and has lots of weeknesses where IMAP is quite amazing to me. I can download only the message headers in my mail client (including the one on my cell phone) and it will not download the 5 MB attachment, giving me an option to look at the headers first and then decide whether I want to open up the message and take a gander at its contents. Just a thought… if you use POP3 consider giving IMAP a try (unless you’re stuck on AOL or MSN web based services – then you’re hosed).
Yes, I couldn’t live without IMAP mail.
AOL now offers IMAP See: http://journals.aol.com/adamkb/blog/entries/110 and http://www.internetweek.com/shared/printableArticle.jhtml?articleID=18902569 among others.
Apparently Compuserve has had it for some time.
Personally I love IMAP and can’t wait for http://www.SnapperMail.com to support it (“real soon now” according to the developers) but I still wouldn’t use AOL. Still, 10billion users (or however many AOL has now) like it enough.