[John Lessnau]

With Pop3, all of your emails are dumped to your email program. Which is fine with a robust desktop program that can filter those messages to folders and do spam checks, but mobile phone programs don't have this kind of power.

IMAP lets you look at your mail server, in my case, i am trying to get Gmail to work. Gmail does the heavy lifting, sorting and filtering spam and all the mobile phone needs to do is look at the gmail and show me the emails and where they are sorted to. If you read my post above, I am having trouble with IMAP and Google filtering