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.

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OS X Mail gets into a mode where it starts sucking down 12 Mbits/s from my IMAP server. ALL DAY LONG!! Actually, more like ALL MONTH LONG!!! My ISP called me up today to talk about the 3.5TB of ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Internet Message Access Protocol, an email delivery system, stores your messages on the mail server rather than downloading them to a specific email client on your computer, mobile device or ...

Check out some screenshots of this in action from Rafe Needleman from CNET's News Blog. Question for Gmail/IMAP users: If a message has TWO labels, does it appear in both folders in your IMAP client?

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 ...