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Originally Posted by Mooncow
what exactly is an IMAP connection?
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The Web interface uses IMAP at some level, this leaves the messages on the server, just lets you look at them remotely. Useful if you use multiple PC's and don't want to download and store email on each of them
You can use this with ntl, by creating a new account of type IMAP instead of POP3, and specify the incoming server as imap.ntlworld.com (*). Outlook Express (for example) can then be set to download "headers only". One quirk of imap is that when you delete a message it is just marked as 'deleted', you have to 'purge deleted messages' to actually delete them.
(*) I guess this is not officially supported by ntl - but it works!!!