tlug: IMAP

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@example.com>]

>>>>> "Frank" == Frank Bennett <bennett@example.com> writes:

    Frank> (2) Can users read mail offline via IMAP, or will they still
    Frank> need to rely on Pop3 for that?

Offline mailreading is no different for IMAP than POP---you still
leave a copy on the local machine.

So the _most_ important consideration for you is not the server, but
the clients.  If the clients download all mail to disk, then read them 
(normal case, I should think), then privacy cannot be protected unless 
users learn to delete local copies.

Or you force them to use readers that don't make them in the first
place.

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