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.

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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