pop or imap

[sperkins]

Hello,

Some users really don't want to use the webmail... change can be so difficult sometimes

So we have a few people still with thunderbird / netscape mail. We're explaining that zimbra is there to get their mail centralized, saved etc... so i'm wondering what's the best protocol to use :
- pop with 'leave these messages on the server' turned on
- imap with 'offline mode' (eg, roaming users, vpn'd accounts that lose broadband connexion...)

what are the pros and cons with the zimbra server (storage, network perf...) ?

Many Thanks,

Sebastian

[rsharpe]

I my opinion IMAP is probably a better choice if you are looking for centeralized mail. The reason being is that POP only looks at the INBOX. So if someone was to send a message from a POP client that sent message will not appear anywhere on the Zimbra system, but if an IMAP users sends a message the sent message will be put into the sent folder on the mail client as well as Zimbra.