The Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) and Post Office Protocol (POP) are two popular methods to access your emails. They work as Message Accessing Agents (MAA) to retrieve messages from the mail ...

Macworld writer Jennifer Berger switched from POP to the IMAP protocol to retrieve her email from several different computers and she isn't looking back: POP (Post Office Protocol) mail downloads your ...

A: There’s only one person who can start off a conversation about email protocols by saying, “When I invented email back in 1978 …,” and that person is V.A. Shiva Ayyadurai, who holds multiple degrees ...

I'm trying to set up a mail sever and I'm having some difficulty with client connectivity.<P>I've always uses POP to access my mail but I've read here lately that IMAP is superior. <P>Exactly what is ...

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Has this ever happened to you? You’re on the road or working at home and you need an important e-mail message. The problem is that you downloaded it at the office ...

I'm trying to help my parents who, when they set up their iPhones a few years ago, did not know about the differences between POP and more modern email protocols. So, while they have slowly been ...

Google's email platform doesn't have to be Web-based. You can configure Gmail to work in your office with Outlook or Outlook Express by using either POP or IMAP to send and receive messages with your ...

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Maybe you have a Yahoo account for email, a Google account for calendar appointments, or an Outlook account for contacts. Here's how to add them all to Windows for easy access. Whether you use a local ...