{"id":322,"date":"2010-11-29T01:01:22","date_gmt":"2010-11-29T06:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mrhost.ca\/system\/"},"modified":"2010-11-29T01:01:22","modified_gmt":"2010-11-29T06:01:22","slug":"whats-the-difference-between-pop3-and-imap","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mrhost.ca\/system\/knowledge-base\/email-mailing-lists\/general-questions\/whats-the-difference-between-pop3-and-imap\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s the difference between POP3 and IMAP?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On our system, EVERY e-mail account acts as BOTH a POP3 and an IMAP account. Really they are just two different ways to read the mail on your account with us.<\/p>\n<p>With POP3, the mail is &#8220;popped&#8221; off our server and onto your home computer. There&#8217;s no synchronizing going on, just copying of mail files from one place to another. In most POP clients, you can choose to leave a copy of the mail on the server, or to delete it from the server when you download it. POPPING is good if you just want to get online, download your e-mail, and get off line again.<\/p>\n<p>With IMAP your e-mail client is constantly connected to our server, and doesn&#8217;t make local copies of your messages. IMAP is great if you access your e-mail from lots of different machines, since it keeps all the messages in one place. It&#8217;s also good if you have a slow connection, because it only downloads the e-mail headers until you choose to read a whole message. That&#8217;s great for deleting spam by just reading the subject line! IMAP needs a constant connection to the Internet the whole time you&#8217;re doing your e-mail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On our system, EVERY e-mail account acts as BOTH a POP3 and an IMAP account. Really they are just two different ways to read the mail on your account with us. With POP3, the mail is &#8220;popped&#8221; off our server and onto your home computer. There&#8217;s no synchronizing going on, just copying of mail files [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":111,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrhost.ca\/system\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/322"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrhost.ca\/system\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrhost.ca\/system\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrhost.ca\/system\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrhost.ca\/system\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mrhost.ca\/system\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":323,"href":"https:\/\/mrhost.ca\/system\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/322\/revisions\/323"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrhost.ca\/system\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrhost.ca\/system\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}