Originally Posted By: tman
Originally Posted By: tfabris
Originally Posted By: Dignan
Can someone explain the seeming refusal of so many companies to support IMAP?


My local sysadmin claims it's not secure. I don't know where that statement comes from and haven't pressed him on it. Anyone else know why he might say that?

IMAP is not inherently insecure. Particular implementations may be however. I guess some old security issues with some implementations may have made your sysadmin wary.

The main reason most admins don't like IMAP is having to deal with the extra storage necessary.

I figured that might be the reason. If everyone started storing all their emails on the servers they'd never be able to keep up.

And I'm guessing Yahoo doesn't support IMAP because it would cut down on ad revenue from people using the webmail version. I just checked, and they only let you use POP3 with their "premium" mail service. You've got to admit, it's pretty cool that GMail offers POP3 and IMAP for no additional charge.
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