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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Rafe Needleman reviews mobile apps and products for fun, and picks startups apart when he gets bored. He has evaluated thousands of new companies, most of which have since gone out of business.

As pointed out by MacFixIt reader Scott Rose, it appears that Apple's .Mac servers handle the IMAP protocol in a fashion different from most other on-line e-mail service providers, effectively ...

Macworld writer Jennifer Berger switched from POP to the IMAP protocol to retrieve her email from several different computers and she isn't looking back: POP (Post Office Protocol) mail downloads your ...

Attackers are increasingly targeting insecure legacy protocols, like IMAP, to avoid running into multi-factor authentication in password-spraying campaigns. Attackers mounting password-spraying ...

Microsoft is working to fix an Exchange Online service outage that intermittently prevents users from accessing their ...