My university uses IMAP for e-mail. When I’m on my computer, I access my e-mail with Netscape messenger. Great. But I’m going to Europe this semester.
The university has a web-based mail portal that is unbelievably terrible. It is just bad. Terrible. I can use Telnet for PINE, but that program is also a pain.
So, my e-mail is presently forwarded to a Hotmail address. Now, Hotmail lets you check POP accounts. Can Hotmail check an imap.blah.com address? Can it send from smtp.blah.com? (I have a feeling that the answer is no, but I want to make sure.) Hotmail talks only about POP, and I read on a site that IMAP is a superset of POP. Thanks.
I’ll be reading the mail in internet cafes where I won’t be able to configure mail programs, etc. I’m not stressing over this issue; the forwarded mail to a web program works ine, I was just wondering.
Our campus uses IMAP, but students can use POP if they wish. I don’t know if the system has to be configured for both, but you should be asking your campus I&TS department, not us.
Hotmail will read POP accounts, but it won’t let you send from another account. That’s too great a temptation for spamers.