What is the difference between IMAP and POP access?
IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol) has replaced POP (Post Office Protocol) as the standard method for retrieving e-mail across the Internet. There are numerous differences between the two protocols, but the key ones are these: • POP adversely affects your mail quota. Every time you POP your mail, the POP software makes a duplicate of your inbox. This means that you must fill less than half of your quota in order to be able to POP your e-mail. IMAP does not perform this copy, and thus does not impose this restriction. • IMAP allows you to store your mail in separate folders on the server. Not only does this allow you to organize your mail but since the mail is on the server, you can access it from home or on-campus; whereas POP forces you to download it to the computer you’re using at the time — but if you download it to your home computer, you can’t get to it from on-campus, and vice versa. Although you can tell POP to leave your mail in the INBOX (on the server), you then begin
