Lately, I’ve noticed quite a few stories and discussions online centering around the always popular debate about whether to use IMAP or POP3 for email. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, 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 ...

POP3, or Post Office Protocol 3, is the protocol used in most types of email accounts to control how email is delivered. When you get your email account from your ISP, they provide instructions for ...

Microsoft Outlook receives and delivers messages over a mail server, a remote computer that acts as a Web-based post office. Email providers such as Yahoo, Google and Hotmail host these servers to ...

Microsoft has warned users still clinging to legacy TLS versions that the end is nigh for TLS 1.0 and 1.1 on POP3 and IMAP4 connections to Exchange Online. Redmond warned, "We will start to block ...

Google is removing support for the POP3 protocol, which allows users to sync emails from third-party accounts into Gmail. POP3 is an older standard of syncing emails, so it's not surprising that ...

Google is ending Gmailify and POP-based fetching in Gmail, pushing users toward forwarding or IMAP in the mobile app to keep third-party mail accessible. If you’ve been using Gmail as the “one inbox ...

Q. What happened to Microsoft Outlook’s mail settings? I can no longer find where to set up or edit my POP3 mail account settings. A. Like you, I was taken aback last year when Microsoft removed ...

Microsoft is investigating an issue with Outlook 2016 when used with POP3 accounts that causes e-mail deletions from servers or duplications of e-mails in user in-boxes. Those problems started showing ...

As of September 2008, Windows Live Hotmail Plus ($19.95 a year) users have had the option of using POP3 (pop3.live.com on port 995). Earlier this month, we reported on hints that Windows Live Hotmail ...