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 ...

If you use Gmail as your email backend but prefer a good old-fashioned desktop email client for handling your day-to-day email, you're probably aware that many clients—like Outlook or Mail.app—don't ...

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 ...

Currently I use Evolution for my mail. It's pretty good, but I'd really prefer to be using a console app. I've used mutt before, and it's okay, but it's support for folders and IMAP seems to be pretty ...

When Sparrow first launched in October of last year, I raved about its design and simplicity, but noted a few downsides. One was that it was Gmail-only. And even though it was Gmail-only, it lacked ...

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 ...

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 ...

Microsoft keeps a copy, so I stopped handing one over ...

Microsoft admits its Mac client support for Outlook.com isn’t great and hints at IMAP support in the future. Microsoft admits its Mac client support for Outlook.com isn’t great and hints at IMAP ...

A key question that remains is whether to use the POP or IMAP setting to fetch your messages from your Gmail account. I won’t bore you with lengthy descriptions of each. In a nutshell, POP downloads a ...