Therefore IMAP is a better system as it doesn’t remove emails from the server but it synchronises the emails across all devices. Also the downside to POP is that you have to back up your own email system as all your emails are now only on your computer.Įmail has largely progressed and we have multiple devices which all need to view the same emails.
So if you have a mobile phone and your computer at the office or home is pulling your email, the mobile phone will not see any new emails. This used to be the most common way to get your email as mailboxes in he past had a size limit and by using POP you removed emails from the mailbox therefore keeping it nice and clear.ĭownside: with POP as soon as you fetch your email on one device, you can no longer access that mail on another. With POP you pull the email and it is (usually) deleted off the mail server. The difference between the two systems is what happens to your email after the device gets or fetches the new email. When you open your Outlook (or any other email program) on your phone or on your computer, you have a choice to either use POP or IMAP when you are setting up your account. Unfortunately, after the latest Microsoft Update for Office, a serious bug has occurred for those users who are using POP3 to fetch their mail in Outlook 2016. We are told to always update our software to prevent hackers and bugs from ruining our computer systems.
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