Huh? IMAP is new? IMAP is ancient in tech terms. Much (MUCH!) older than 4 years. I was using PINE in 1993 with IMAP. It's gone through multiple revisions. I haven't used IMAP in a long time - is IMAP4 still the current implementation? POP3 is newer than "IMAP" as far as I know. I don't know the history of its revisions, so I don't know if its first incarnation is actually older than the first IMAP.

I hadn't even heard of POP3 when I was first using IMAP.

Bruno