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.

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

I'm interested in setting up a small POP3/IMAP mail server on my win2k server box that's running IIS. I don't need anything nearly as heavy duty as Exchange, and although CommunicatePro looks nice, I ...

It’s easy to think that an iOS backup would include all the personal data stored on your iPhone or iPad. But Apple explains in a support page that some things aren’t copied off your phone, because ...

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 ...

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Are you a person who relies on POP3 and IMAP to gain access to your emails? Many of us do this in some shape or form, so it makes sense that you’ve been searching for a better tool than the one you’re ...

Word is out on the T-Mobile forums that POP3/IMAP email on the G1 is a big fail. People are reporting that they experience connection errors 95% of the time they check their email, email is not ...

Over on the T-Mobile forums, there’s a massive thread about the G1’s totally borked POP3/IMAP email service. Looks like receiving, sending, and even just checking ...

The Outlook email client allows users to add multiple email accounts, including Gmail, Microsoft, and Yahoo. Some users encountered the error “We couldn’t log on ...