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.

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 ...

MacFixIt reader Scott Rose reports on an IMAP bug in Apple Mail.app that exclusively affects users with one IMAP account defined in Mail.app's preferences. Configurations with more than one account do ...

Gmail's IMAP support roll-out this week had nerds all atwitter about the possibility of synchronized email access across devices, computers, and clients. IMAP is far superior to regular old POP for ...

I just read an article over on Download Squad, thanks Kevin, that has me quite excited as a mobile device user who relies on Gmail. It seems that Gmail is FINALLY rolling out IMAP support. I started ...

Challenge was announced last week, here: how to get many years' worth of email stored in old Outlook .PST files into an online Gmail account. Conceptual basis of the real solution. It involves IMAP ...

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 ...

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 ...

The LG G5 (#LGG5) smartphone supports several types of #email accounts, which means you can set up multiple email accounts such as POP3/IMAP, Exchange, and Gmail account on your phone at one time.

We are about to undertake a migration of about 250 users from a Sendmail server running IMAP to an Exchange 2003 box. The problem is that the users like to make subfolders of their inboxes on their ...