A: There’s only one person who can start off a conversation about email protocols by saying, “When I invented email back in 1978 …,” and that person is V.A. Shiva Ayyadurai, who holds multiple degrees ...

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 ...

POP, the Post Office Protocol, has been the long-standing mail retrieval protocol for TCP/IP networks. But it’s started showing its age at a time when users are becoming more mobile, accessing mail ...

Mail saves a modified draft every 30" on the server (if you use an IMAP folder for drafts), and each obsolete version is deleted. Most IMAP severs simply delete the obsolete version, but GMail moves ...

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, ...