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.

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 ...

October 24, 2007 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google If you've set up Gmail IMAP using Google's instructions, you may have noticed a couple of snags—namely that ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Adding email accounts to your iPhone is usually a quick and painless affair. And once done, you can read and respond to all of your email messages ...

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 ...

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 ...

Wayne Zimmerman’s wife usually reads email on her own PC. But when she tries to read it on her husband’s PC, the messages get mixed up. I’m going to guess that your wife’s email client software is ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...