On 05-Sep-10 13:49:22, Martin A. Brooks wrote:
On Sun, September 5, 2010 14:21, Ted Harding wrote:
No, I don't particularly want a webmail system! The point about Zen & webmail is that with Zen it is either the webmail interface or pulling the mail (in entirety) by POP3. I've used the webmail interface only when I've had to (e.g. the Manchester server was down and I've asked people to temporarily send to my Zen address instead). I want IMAP as my standard access method.
I think you're a little bit confused. Webmail is just an interface to your mailstore presented via a web browser. If you're underlying mailstore is IMAP, then your webmail client will use IMAP.
Excuse me but I understand this perfectly well. My original (and since repated) point is that my ISP (Zen) offer *only* webmail interface and POP3. They do *NOT* offer IMAP. The webmail interface is impossibly slow and clunky[**] for the quantity of mail I receive. I want to be able to use IMAP on my *local* email client (at home) to pre-scan and possibly read mail while it is still on the provider's server, delete as desired (usually most of it) and then use IMAP to download it to my local machine. This is exactly what I have been using for years with my Manchester email account, which is about to be closed down.
Therefore the email hosting service that I have been asking for recommendations for must run IMAP, and, as I have said, offer high quality and reliability of service. It's a very straightforward question, and is not answered by recommendations to use methods which either I can not use, or which I find impossibly tedious to use, with my ISP.
I access my email from a web browser, from my iPhone, from Thunderbird on my netbook and probably a few more. It's all done via IMAP.
When I access Zen's webmail via a browser: a) clicking on an email to read it leads to a few seconds delay before it appears on the screen. b) After reading, I click on "Inbox" to return to the inbox display leads to anything up to 30 seconds delay (depending on how much is there) before the inbox list is displayed again. c) Marking mails for deletion, then clicking on the "wastebasket" leads to similar delays before completion.
And, as stated, I can no have IMAP access to my mail on Zen.
Ted.
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