For years, POP (Post Office Protocol) email has been a thorn in my side. Apple's email service uses the IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol) protocol for email, as do many other email services.

IMAP (short for Internet Message Access Protocol) is an internet protocol that lets you sync your email inbox across multiple devices. Most popular email apps, like Gmail and Outlook, use IMAP servers ...

Lately, I’ve noticed quite a few stories and discussions online centering around the always popular debate about whether to use IMAP or POP3 for email. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, IMAP ...

Q: What’s the difference between POP and IMAP email settings, and which will work best for my business? A: There’s only one person who can start off a conversation about email protocols by saying, ...

Apple's Mail e-mail client supports a number of different messaging protocols including POP and IMAP, but if you convert an existing account from POP to IMAP then you may run into a problem in which e ...

If your business uses an Apple computer as your primary workstation, you probably use Mail to manage your email accounts. Using IMAP in Mail means that you can sync settings and folders between ...

Google is ending Gmailify and POP-based fetching in Gmail, pushing users toward forwarding or IMAP in the mobile app to keep ...

Gmail is phasing out syncing email from third-party email accounts via POP. Users can shift to IMAP, but it's not quite the ...

A Lifehacker reader in the Army reserves says the military is transitioning from POP to IMAP email access, so he wants to know how he can continue to use Gmail instead of the Army's limited-space ...

Hello:<br><br>I am trying to get Apple Mail to work flawlessly with courier-imap. For now, everything is working, I can check my email on the IMAP server from within ...