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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Businesses looking to maintain an Internet presence can use Yahoo's services to host their websites and email. While Yahoo's Web mail program is well known, they also allow you to connect to your ...

When you upgrade to Apple's iCloud service from MobileMe, the system will transfer your Mail account over to the new service as well. While not much changes for Apple's Mail service itself, some ...

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 ...