On Apr 1, 2:58 pm, Jonas Ulrich <jonasulrich3...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I understand that imap is better than pop. how can I set up my gmail account
> with imap?
At the Gmail web page, you get to choose between IMAP and POP.
Whether that is really better for you depends on how you use your e-
mail. If you use several computers for your e-mail, IMAP may be
better as long as you are the only person accessing it, managing it,
and deleting items. All computer clients can see see and store the
same email as what is being kept "forever" on the web site. The web
site controls the syncing of the contents downloaded to the clients.
But if the web site mail server disappears, so does your email on the
clients unless you archive it in some folder that the web site cannot
reach.
With Gmail, I decided to use POP, even with several computers in the
house, because my wife and I like to retain or delete different items
and keep different folders in our "his" and "hers" machines. The web
site does not care what we do with our mail after it is downloaded.
But only one computer is allowed to delete mail from the web site one
month after that "master" computer downloads the mail.
Al Poulin
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