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 ...

If you use Gmail as your email backend but prefer a good old-fashioned desktop email client for handling your day-to-day email, you're probably aware that many clients—like Outlook or Mail.app—don't ...

As you learned yesterday, working with Gmail can be a lot nicer if you use a desktop e-mail program instead of Gmail’s Web-based interface. A key question that remains is whether to use the POP or ...

POP, the Post Office Protocol, has been the long-standing mail retrieval protocol for TCP/IP networks. But it’s started showing its age at a time when users are becoming more mobile, accessing mail ...

When Sparrow first launched in October of last year, I raved about its design and simplicity, but noted a few downsides. One was that it was Gmail-only. And even though it was Gmail-only, it lacked ...

Microsoft admits its Mac client support for Outlook.com isn’t great and hints at IMAP support in the future. Microsoft admits its Mac client support for Outlook.com isn’t great and hints at IMAP ...

Wayne Zimmerman’s wife usually reads email on her own PC. But when she tries to read it on her husband’s PC, the messages get mixed up. I’m going to guess that your wife’s email client software is ...

Businesses looking to maintain an Internet presence can use Yahoo's services to host their websites and email. While Yahoo's Web mail program is well known, they also allow you to connect to your ...

Microsoft's e-mail service finally supports IMAP. Here's how to add your account to Thunderbird or another desktop mail client. Rick Broida is the author of numerous books and thousands of reviews, ...

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 ...

So much happens behind the scenes on our computers that at times technology can seem magical. For example, when a new email message arrives, Notification Center alerts me simultaneously on both my Mac ...