IMAP (Internet Mail Access Protocol)
With IMAP accounts, emails are stored on a remote server. Users can log in with multiple email clients on computers or mobile devices and read the same emails. Any changes made to the mailbox will be synchronized across multiple devices and messages will only be removed from the server if the user deletes the email.
You can log in from multiple computers and devices at the same time.
Your Email Archive is synchronized and stored on the server for access by all connected devices.
Sent and received mail is saved on the server.
- If an e-mail is deleted in any e-mail client used, the e-mail will be deleted from the server as well as from all other devices, through which the e-mail address is accessed via the IMAP protocol.
POP3 (Mail Office Protocol)
POP3 is an older protocol that was originally designed to be used on a single computer only. Unlike modern protocols that use two-way synchronization, POP3 supports only one-way synchronization of e-mail, and allows users to download e-mail from the server to the mail client, locally on the device on which it is used.
