POP, the Post Office Protocol, has been the long-standing mail retrieval protocol for TCP/IP networks. But it’s started showing its age at a time when users are becoming more mobile, accessing mail ...

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A: There’s only one person who can start off a conversation about email protocols by saying, “When I invented email back in 1978 …,” and that person is V.A. Shiva Ayyadurai, who holds multiple degrees ...

Ok, so the gravy train that was my former job is ending and the days of free IMAP with unlimited storage are at an end unless I can find something else. I'm quite addicted to the notion of having mail ...

Microsoft today announced Outlook.com users can now import email from IMAP-enabled email providers, including Yahoo Mail. The addition is part of the service’s import wizard, which lets you keep your ...

The Fast Forward column in the March 21 Business section incorrectly stated what the acronym for the IMAP e-mail standard stands for. It is Internet Message Access Protocol. (Published 03/27/04) If it ...

Update, 4:36pm: Microsoft has updated its post to indicate that the "ground up" redesign coming for the Mac version of Outlook will continue to be a "native Mac app," and not a "Progressive Web App ...