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'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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

As you learned yesterday, working with Gmail can be a lot nicer if you use a desktop e-mail program instead of Gmail’s Web-based interface. A key question that remains is whether to use the POP or ...

So you have unwrapped your new iPhone or iPad and now you want to set up your email and get connected. While the iPhone/iPad does not natively support Go Daddy, it does support POP/IMAP email servers ...

Many of us have multiple email addresses, or we use multiple devices to read our email, or both. Without a basic understanding of how email works and how our devices process email, we can get ...

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10.4.8 mail server (running just mail [POP/IMAP/SMTP], firewall, and web services [for webmail only]).<BR><BR>The server is extraordinarily slow, but nothing shows up as taking too much CPU when ...