Comments on: Managing Email Woes: IMAP vs POP

By: Gunnar

Gunnar — Thu, 22 May 2008 21:02:50 +0000

Ahhh that would explain it. Thanks – you guys rock!

By: Jonathan Horak

Jonathan Horak — Thu, 22 May 2008 18:08:28 +0000

Gunnar, there’s a POP setting that allows messages to stay on the server for a specified time frame — BlackJacks are probably set up in this way. Your laptop’s email client, on the other hand, is configured to delete emails from the server on download.

By: Nick Weynand

Nick Weynand — Thu, 22 May 2008 15:56:56 +0000

Hi Jared. Your Exchange server should be able to support IMAP and POP3. You may need to ask your IT staff how to connect to a different protocol.

By: Matt Crest

Matt Crest — Thu, 22 May 2008 15:29:44 +0000

Hey Manoj -
Thanks for the solid overview. I’ve used POP for years, but am planning on getting iPhone v.2 – so would like to transition to IMAP (for the same reasons you mentioned). My question/concern is this: is there a decent way to transfer all the rules I have set up in my email client (Apple Mail) to an IMAP configuration without having to redefine them all?

Not sure if you know or not, but figured I’d ask.

Thanks.

By: Gunnar

Gunnar — Thu, 22 May 2008 15:22:54 +0000

Good article, thanks!! I use POP with one laptop and a BlackJack. Why are messages that I first download from the server to the BlackJack then still downloaded to the laptop, and subsequently deleted from the BlackJack (but never the other way around)? By your description of POP, they should be on the cell phone, get deleted from the server after the download, and never get downloaded to the laptop later. Clearly the server is not deleting the messages after they get downloaded to the cell phone, very strange! =)

By: Jared

Jared — Thu, 22 May 2008 15:12:54 +0000

So what about those of us that are hitting an Exchange server? Any thoughts? Or should I open a trouble ticket with IT?