While understanding the differences, advantages and disadvantages between IMAP and POP3 protocols, one must take into account the the kind of user or the kind of device that will use the mailbox. To make it easy for anyone to understand and select what suits their individual needs, let\u00b4s focus on some points about each of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol)<\/span> Also, as the emails are stored on the web server, it is important to keep checking the available storage space for your mailbox, else if the mailbox is full, mails will start bouncing back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n ADVANTAGES<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n DISADVANTAGES<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n POP3 (Post Office Protocol) POP3 is a protocol that was developed when the internet connections were with no flat rate, so the idea was to download the emails quickly and disconnect the internet connection, to save on cost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n When downloading the messages each time you read the email, it is deleted from the server, freeing up space, so it is less likely the mailbox will get full and can\u2019t receive new emails. However, nowadays there is the option to keep a copy of the messages in the server fro certain number of days, in order to be able to synchronize the incoming messages and review the email from different devices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n ADVANTAGES<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n DISADVANTAGES<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Are you looking at upgrading your email hosting for better reliability and features, check out our Email plans \u2013 Business Email with 5Gb storage<\/a> per id \/ Business Email with 25Gb storage per id<\/a> \/ G-Suite with 30Gb storage per id<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" While understanding the differences, advantages and disadvantages between IMAP and POP3 protocols, one must take into account the the kind of user or the kind of device that will use the mailbox. To make it easy for anyone to understand and select what suits their individual needs, let\u00b4s focus on some points about each of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":108,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-email"],"yoast_head":"\n
<\/strong>The most differenciating features of the IMAP protocol is that that the emails and inboxes are not stored on your computer but somewhere in the cloud. This allows all your mails to be perfectly synchronized when usually read emails from different computers or devices, or even from Webmail, as all devices and platforms will show exactly same emails, folders, etc.
The main disadvantage of the IMAP protocol is that it is mandatory to have an internet connection on all the time to read\/reply and search the messages. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/span><\/strong>In case of the POP3 protocol, your email client (ex. Outlook, ThunderBird, Mail, etc) connects directly to the mail server and downloads all the emails\/attachments on the email client configured to access emails. This is the main advantage, as the emails are downloaded locally, they can be read even without an internet connection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n