What is difference between Microsoft Exchange vs POP vs IMAP?

Answer 1

Microsoft Exchange Server is Microsoft's enterprise (large-scale) e-mail and electronic messaging server software. Exchange is capable of supporting the e-mail and other electronic communications needs of enterprises ranging in size from a few to hundreds of thousands of users.

While Exchange originated as an e-mail system, it has evolved to support calendaring, meeting and task management, web-based e-mail access, and other business support features. The current version is Exchange Server 2003. Exchange Server 2007 is expected to be availble early in 2007 and will feature integrated voicemail, speech and speech recognition which can read e-mail to users over the phone and respond to their spoken instructions, enhanced anti-spam protection, and enhanced e-mail compliance features.

POP is short for Post Office Protocol, a protocol used to retrieve e-mail from a mail server. Most e-mail applications (sometimes called an e-mail client) use the POP protocol, although some can use the newer IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol).
There are two versions of POP. The first, called POP2, became a standard in the mid-80's and requires SMTP to send messages. The newer version, POP3, can be used with or without SMTP.

The Internet Message Access Protocol (commonly known as IMAP or IMAP4, and previously called Internet Mail Access Protocol) is an application layer Internet protocol that allows a local client to access e-mail on a remote server. The current version, IMAP version 4 revision 1 (IMAP4rev1), is defined by RFC 3501. IMAP4 and POP3 (Post Office Protocol version 3) are the two most prevalent Internet standard protocols for e-mail retrieval. Virtually all modern e-mail clients and servers support both.

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Answer 2

Exchange Vs Imap

Answer 3

Imap Vs Exchange

Answer 4

I know what you mean as I use them sometimes interchangeably also along with school and dojo without thinking but to me they do imply a difference in some ways really. To me practice implies the approach you take for tweaking and fine tuning things with the idea of improving their overall quality. Training on the other hand implies to me a specific, desired goal and training to reach that goal and that being your main focus rather than trying to improve the overall quality of a specific thing or group of things.

Answer 5

It depends..

Answer 6

that was awful. it told us what they are but not what the difference is