Hosting FAQ
IMAP or POP3?
Published On: 11/08/2013
Depending on your personal style of communicating and whom you prefer to get your email service from, you can pretty quickly narrow down how you should use your email.
- If you use check your email from a lot of devices, phones, or computers, set up your email clients to use IMAP.
- If you use mostly webmail and want your phone or iPad to sync with your webmail, use IMAP, as well.
- If you’re using one email client on one dedicated machine (say, in your office), you might be fine with POP3.
- If you have a huge history of email, you may want to use POP3 to keep from running out of space on the remote email server.
- If you use Hotmail or an Exchange Server Email, MAPI or Exchange ActiveSync will give you similar cloud-based syncing, like IMAP.
- If you don’t use Hotmail and you want email sync, use IMAP. If you do use it and want email sync, use MAPI/Exchange ActiveSync.