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In this post, I’m going to go over some email basics you should know. I apologize in advance for those of you who are well-versed in email terms. Still, we often have people who log into Remote Technical Support<\/a><\/strong> with email issues. Many of these problems could be resolved by the customer if they knew these basic facts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

POP Vs. IMAP<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

For home customers, there are two kinds of email services. The first is called POP. That’s another of our famous computing-related acronyms. POP stands for Post Office Protocol. POP is the older of the two services dating back to 1984. With POP, a computer user downloads all their emails onto their computing device and the email is deleted from the server. In the early days of computing, when most of us only had one computer, POP worked just fine. However, it doesn’t work well when you are receiving email on more than one device. You could wind up having to move or delete an email individually on each of your computers. Or, you might find that an email downloads onto one device, is deleted from the server and never shows up on additional devices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Next, we have IMAP. This acronym stands for Internet Mail Access Protocol. In this method, emails stay on the server. This means all devices can receive (sync) emails from the same account. Additionally, if you move or delete on one device, that email will be moved or deleted on all other devices, as long as all devices are set up with IMAP. With the explosion of cell phones, tablets and smartwatches, almost all email is now set up as IMAP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Webmail Vs. Email Clients<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Of all the email basics I’m explaining in this post, these are two of the most misunderstood terms. Yet, they really are the simplest to define. If you open a browser<\/span> like Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome or Firefox to go to your email, you are using webmail. On the other hand, if you open an app<\/span> to read your email, that app is called an email client. Some examples of email clients:<\/p>\n\n\n\n