How do POP and IMAP settings differ? In simple terms, POP and IMAP determine how your incoming mail is moved, saved, deleted and synchronized between the email server and your inbox.

I presently receive my email from several servers accessible via POP3. At home, I use kmail to download email from each of these servers, and have a pretty large archive of saved messages in ...

Macworld writer Jennifer Berger switched from POP to the IMAP protocol to retrieve her email from several different computers and she isn't looking ba ...

When some of your email messages appear on one PC, and other messages on another, you're using the wrong protocol.

Setting up a Comcast IMAP account in OS X Mavericks Now let's do the same thing in OS X Mavericks. Once again, we need to fake out Mail so that it doesn't try to set up a Comcast POP3 account.

1) _DON'T_ delete the POP mapping on the phone yet. 2) Set up the IMAP account. I don't think the phone will complain about having two connections to the same account, but I've never actually ...

Google thinks that perhaps when you set up your account, you immediately set up POP or IMAP to redirect mail from that account to another account.