IMAP (short for Internet Message Access Protocol) is an internet protocol that lets you sync your email inbox across multiple devices. Most popular email apps, like Gmail and Outlook, use IMAP servers ...

Google is investigating a service outage affecting Gmail users worldwide that causes issues when syncing emails with Microsoft servers via the Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP). On affected ...

As soon as your collection of Apple devices running OS X or iOS expands to two or more, the issue of syncing is bound to come up. You’ll want most or all of the important personal data on your first ...

If your business uses an Apple computer as your primary workstation, you probably use Mail to manage your email accounts. Using IMAP in Mail means that you can sync settings and folders between ...

If you want to make sure you have exactly the same e-mail messages—including all your saved and sent mail-on two or more Macs, there’s an easy way and a hard way to do so. Server-Based Accounts The ...

Regular readers know that I’m less than fond of Microsoft Outlook, which I consider a bloated, confusing, often buggy program. But I’m sort of stuck with it, and I’ll admit I was pleasantly surprised ...

To synchronize with the cloud's push messaging services in MobileMe, specialized desktop software is required. On the Mac, Apple talks to Mac OS X's Sync Services to sync to the cloud, and ...

Apple's Mail e-mail client supports a number of different messaging protocols including POP and IMAP, but if you convert an existing account from POP to IMAP then you may run into a problem in which e ...

As you learned yesterday, working with Gmail can be a lot nicer if you use a desktop e-mail program instead of Gmail’s Web-based interface. A key question that remains is whether to use the POP or ...

Gmail for Android and iOS lets you sign into non-Google accounts to read and send emails. Microsoft Outlook and Hotmail integration in Gmail is currently broken. Since this morning PT (5:10 p.m. UTC), ...