POP3

If you have ever found yourself setting up your Internet service provides email on your preferred email program (Outlook/Thunderbird/Windows Live Mail/ect) and wondered which settings you should use (POP3 or IMAP) here is the definitive answer.

IMAP – plain and simple, here’s the why…..

Persistent connection

With POP3 you will find that every few minutes your email program will download new messages – IMAP will however maintains a persistent connection and so a new email appears in your inbox the moment it is sent. Continue reading