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Originally Posted by z284pwr
I guess i'm still in the old age. For my Laptop I really prefer POP3 over IMAP. IMAP is way to slow for syncing between them. That and I often and storing and sending large files in emails and if I don't have access to the Internet or on a slow connection its painfully slow, especially when I'm a hurry to get to a file and change it, this is also much easier if I'm offline, I can just open Outlook, find the email and I have the file, no worries of Internet.
IMAP is definitely handy if you are using more than one device though. My laptop is my main source of computer usage so anywhere else I need to see email I just use the web client. Luckily the email is sent to the Trash in Gmail after it has been downloaded of the server so I can still get to a file if I need it from a different computer.
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My Outlook is set up the same way in that even offline I have access to all my mail and attachments as it's autodownloaded and a copy of everything resides on my HD. The only difference in this aspect is that IMAP reflects any changes you make in outlook to the primary mail server. If you set it up the right way you don't need constant internet to view your emails. As for speed, I haven't really noticed a difference, but I haven't used POP3 service in years so I haven't really compared hahah. Theoretically there shouldn't be a difference in the amount of time it takes to sync the folders as they are both essentially just downloading messages from a server, messages that are a couple kilobytes at most. One of my IMAP servers allowed for the IDLE command too, so that when I was hooked up onto the internet e-mail was "pushed" to my computer if I had Outlook open, instead of sending/receiving at intervals which is necessary for POP3. If anything this makes IMAP faster than POP3 as it has a quicker response.