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November 17th, 2009
Viktor Petersson

sewageThere are quite a few crappy email providers out there. If you did not pay attention when you chose your email provider, chances are that your email provider sucks. I’ve compiled a brief check-list for you that you can use to determine if your email provider sucks and that it’s time to move elsewhere.

Keep in mind that these are general guidelines. I’m aware of situations that invalidate one or more of these arguments, but they are true in general.

You know that that it’s time to switch email provider when….

…your storage quota is less than 5GB and you pay more than $0 per year.
Yes, Gmail changed the rules of the game. When they introduced several gigabytes of free storage, their competitors had no other choice but to follow. Today Gmail gives you more than 7GB of free storage. If you are still paying for less than a couple of gigabytes of storage, it’s time to move on.

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Tags: Gmail, IMAP, ISP, One, POP3 Posted in Tips 1 Comment »

Why The Heck Are People Still Using POP3?

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October 15th, 2009
Viktor Petersson

QuestionOver the past year or so, I’ve spent a lot of time on various e-mail related forums. I’ve seen many posts similar to “Help! I’ve marked a message as read in my email client, but it’s still not marked as read on my iPhone/BlackBerry/other computer.” In 9 out of 10 cases, this is simply because the user is using POP3 instead of IMAP. This leads me to wonder: why the heck are people still using POP3?

Today, with the exception of some ISPs and low-end free email services, most providers support IMAP. Assuming your email provider does support IMAP, why would anyone pick POP3 over IMAP? Is it purely because of old habits, miseducation, or is there an actual reason?

Let’s go through the basics of POP3 versus IMAP first. In many ways they are similar. However, they differ in one significant way: POP3 was built to let the server hold your email until you download it (and then delete it) while IMAP was built to actually store your emails on the server.

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Tags: apocalypse, IMAP, POP3 Posted in Analysis 5 Comments »
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