Should I configure my e-mail address as imap or pop?

Question

Hi Guys,

I have an e-mail address linked to my own website (e.g. [e-mail]) and I need to access this on my blackberry and on 2 computers, office and home. Should I register the servers as imap or pop, or a mixture? I want to be able to access all messages from everywhere. So if I delete a message on my blackberry, it's also deleted on comps etc. Thanks.

Also, what if the blackberry was on pop but the computers were on imap?

Answer 1

Post office Protocol is just like a post office, You get the mail, and there are no more copies of it. you cant go to the post office and say I want to have a look at the message again.

Internet message access protocol is a bit different, more suited for what you're saying of being able to access it from multiple locations, and then later if you select delete the mail, it will be synced to the e-mail address and deleted.



But i have an iphone and two computers all of which are linked to my e-mail address, and even if i delete a message on one it doesn't delete the message from them all personally i like imap, sure it is a pain to delete those messages but at least i know i can access them from everything.



If you were on POP and your daughter son, etc were to select your email, and something important was being sent to your computer, you would not be able to see it on the other computers.



Also i cant be certain but I am pretty sure that your email server has to be either IMAP or POP, but dont quote me on that

Answer 2

If you use IMAP anything you do to any of your e-mails will happen to them on every computer due to the fact that everything is done on the mail server, not your local computer. POP downloads the messages and what you do to them is only local. If only your blackberry was using POP, then you won't be able to change e-mails on other computers.

Answer 3

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