With Gmail's adoption of IMAP, one of electronic messaging's best-kept secrets has been thrust suddenly into the spotlight. But IMAP's inventor says the move, while overdue, doesn't deserve the ...

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.

I just got my first iPhone, the 4. I easily setup my Yahoo web mail account on it and it works fine. I then tried to setup my ISP's mail (Charter cable) on it. I went through the add account screen ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you’re using Android and feel the standard Google email application is a little restrictive, to say the least, it might be worth taking a look at K-9 Mail for Android. This app adds a number of ...

This has been bugging me for a while now, but I'm actively motivated to fix it at the moment (I use this account for throwaway crap I don't want to use my main email address for.) So I get internet ...

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 ...