IMAP stands for Internet Message Access Protocol. It is a method of accessing electronic mail or bulletin board messages that are kept on a (possibly shared) mail server. In other words, it permits a "client" email program to access remote message stores as if they were local. For example, email stored on an IMAP server can be manipulated from a desktop computer at home, a workstation at the office, and a notebook computer while traveling, without the need to transfer messages or files back and forth between these computers.
POP3 -DEFINITION -(Post Office Protocol 3) is the most recent version of a standard protocol for receiving e-mail. POP3 is a client/server protocol in which e-mail is received and held for you by your Internet server. Periodically, you (or your client e-mail receiver) check your mail-box on the server and download any mail, probably using POP3. This standard protocol is built into most popular e-mail products, such as Eudora and Outlook Express. It's also built into the Netscape and Microsoft Internet Explorer browsers.
POP3 is designed to delete mail on the server as soon as the user has downloaded it. However, some implementations allow users or an administrator to specify that mail be saved for some period of time. POP can be thought of as a "store-and-forward" service.
WebMail is a web-based email application that lets you read, send and organise your email via a web browser, which means you can be almost anywhere and still have access to your messages.
2007-02-19 02:37:11
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answered by Jerry 7
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I believe (I could be wrong) that using POP3, the email is downloaded from the server straight to your computer email client (like Outlook Express). Once you download an email you do not have to be on line to read it again. In IMAP,and web based e mail, you are viewing it off of someone elses server, and have to be on line to view it each time. Chow.
2007-02-19 02:18:48
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answered by Clipper 6
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Did that very thing as my college project; implementing those I mean. SMTP is the protocol for sending out email to a mailbox server, POP3 and IMAP are sort of competing types of mail retrieval protocol; but POP3 is vastly simpler that took only few pages of RFC compare to the feature rich IMAP; POP3 would need you to download emails incoming off the server and arrange it by yourself while IMAP let you organize it directly on the server.
2016-05-24 08:42:11
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answered by Anonymous
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