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 ...

With Gmail's adoption of IMAP, one of electronic messaging's best-kept secrets has been thrust suddenly into the spotlight. But IMAP's inventor says the move, while overdue, doesn't deserve the ...

More than a year after Microsoft introduced its revamped, modern-style webmail service, Outlook.com finally—finally!—supports IMAP. The IMAP protocol allows standalone email clients to access messages ...

In today’s installment of FlippedBITS, I want to examine a handful of common misconceptions about IMAP, a familiar protocol for retrieving email from a server. IMAP stands for… well, thereby hangs the ...

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 KMails ...

Has this ever happened to you? You’re on the road or working at home and you need an important e-mail message. The problem is that you downloaded it at the office ...

The Web is awash with frustrated Google Apps and Gmail users who are not able to use their email because the Gmail IMAP server is down. IMAP is an important service that helps users connect their ...

Details, solutions for Entourage It appears that in an effort to make the time it takes to check messages quicker, Microsoft Entourage chooses only to synchronize the Inbox with what is on the server.

Mail.app us using the wrong folder for "Sent" for a particular imap server. I remember, and an internet search confirms, that Mail->Preferences->Accounts used to have entries for this. The versions I ...

Many of the books sent to me in hopes that I will review them are, well, irritating. They adopt a cute “we’re all in this together except I’m the expert and you’re the noob” tone, and if they are ...