id like to differentiate pop form imap.

pop is ancient and really basic. Effectively what it does is places your mail in the inbox for download. the pop client (n900) checks the serer and downloads new messages. thats it.

imap is two way, so sending stuff on your phone ends up in your gmail sent mail folder. and you can browse all your folders (all mail, spam etc.) from your n900. Although regrettably not that practical because the n900 mail client has no search function and gets slow with large amounts of mail.

does anybody use pop on their n900 and if yes why?