POP vs IMAP..should be easy but..
All home home desktop computer email accounts are IMAP to keep in step with my Laptop, phone and shop computer.. Although my wife's email account on the home computer is IMAP she doesn't want anything...
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My experience is with pop3 is that the message downloading (and deleting) is controlled by the client, not the server. So if many clients want to download it they can. Then one of the clients can be set to delete as needed. My smaller ISP still only offers pop3 last I checked and I get mail on my phone and home computer no problem.
IMAP stores the email on the server to be “viewed” on the client. If you delete it, it’s gone. I’m not sure how a server offering both would handle it but if one client uses pop3 and downloads a email before the user deletes it on the IMAP machine it would probably work fine.
IMAP stores the email on the server to be “viewed” on the client. If you delete it, it’s gone. I’m not sure how a server offering both would handle it but if one client uses pop3 and downloads a email before the user deletes it on the IMAP machine it would probably work fine.
