Mozilla Thunderbird

  Benefits of IMAP The IMAP protocol supports both online and offline activity. Therefore, messages can be stored both on the local machine and on the server, enabling numerous benefits: Multiple clients can be used to access messages. For example, a Thunderbird user with a Microsoft Live account can use both the Thunderbird application that is installed on their system and the web-based interface provided by Microsoft. Thunderbird users can download their messages to their local system and access them even when they are not connected to the internet. Messages load faster when they are stored on a local drive. Search performance is much faster than searching a set of messages on a remote server. Full-text search of a message body is only possible on messages that have been downloaded. In order to provide this kind of flexibility and functionality, though, messages must be synchronized between the local machine and the email server. Synchronization To understand message synchronizat...