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 ...

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 is phasing out syncing email from third-party email accounts via POP. Users can shift to IMAP, but it's not quite the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

We are about to undertake a migration of about 250 users from a Sendmail server running IMAP to an Exchange 2003 box. The problem is that the users like to make subfolders of their inboxes on their ...