Hi Guys,

I will check tonight if the provider supports IMAP and change my settings
accordingly.

Will let you know...

Greetz

Jan


On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 11:10 PM, Greg S <[email protected]> wrote:

> I agree, POP is old and antiquated for the web today. When storage space
> cost a lot, mail providers used pop3 accounts so mail would be downloaded
> and stored on your computer and removed from their servers.  It worked fine
> until people wanted to view mail on multiple devices.  If the mail is
> downloaded to the computer and removed from the server, you can't view it
> on your phone.
>
> Your POP mail server may have a timeout setting if there are too many poll
> requests within a specific time frame.  The mail server then locks out all
> requests for a period of time.  This is probably why you are having an
> issue with multiple devices polling a POP account and not getting mail
> updates.
>
> upgrading to an IMAP account is your best solution.
>
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