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Over the years, we’ve set up many email accounts in programs like Thunderbird and OE Classic<\/a>. We’ve learned that many people don’t realize there’s a big difference between POP3 and IMAP email protocols.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Whenever you set up an email app or program on a laptop, desktop, iPhone, iPad, Android tablet, or Android smartphone, always set it up using IMAP instead of POP3 protocol. And if your ISP is still living in the dark ages and does not offer IMAP, get yourself a Gmail<\/a> or Outlook\/Hotmail<\/a> or any other free webmail account and use IMAP.<\/span><\/p>\n We will put everything in a nutshell for you – and make it as clean, neat, and understandable as possible.<\/span><\/p>\n POP Protocol (usually POP3)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Downloads emails from a mail server for permanent storage on your computer or other devices.\u00a0 If your computer crashes, you will lose all your email that you don’t have backed up.<\/span><\/p>\n IMAP Mail Protocol<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Leaves all your emails on the server. IMAP allows you to use different devices to check your emails.\u00a0 In other words, you can check your email from your Windows PC, your smartphone, or your tablet from anywhere. Your emails are always synchronized and will instantly appear in your webmail inbox no matter which device you use. If your computer crashes, you won’t lose your email, even if you don’t have them backed up.<\/span><\/p>\n So, now you know why you always want to use IMAP protocol when setting up your email on your Windows PCs and other devices including smartphones and tablets.<\/span><\/p>\n Remember… whenever you set up email accounts regardless of the device…always them up as IMAP.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Our Spring Donation Drive is Underway!<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Make a small donation and help us to keep on helping you!<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Our annual spring donation drive is underway. Sales of our products and services help keep the lights on at Cloudeight.\u00a0 But if you don\u2019t need any of our products or services right now, please help us with a <\/span>donation. Even the smallest gift is appreciated. Every donation helps us to provide useful information that helps you with your computer as well as helps to keep you safe on the Internet. We offer free help to thousands of people every year\u2026 and we offer an honest and inexpensive computer repair service too. We do everything we can to help you with your computer and to help you stay safe too.<\/span><\/p>\n Please help us by donating right now<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Interested in making a monthly gift? Visit this page<\/span><\/a>. Help us keep helping you!<\/span><\/p>\n Thank you so much for your support!\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n POP Vs. IMAP – All About Your Email Setup Over the years, we’ve set up many email accounts in programs like Thunderbird and OE Classic. We’ve learned that many people don’t realize there’s a big difference between POP3 and IMAP email protocols.\u00a0 Whenever you set up an email app or program on a laptop, desktop, iPhone,\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25103,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4472,1461,1751,4410,4388,1764],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28079"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28079"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28082,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28079\/revisions\/28082"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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