Internet Message Access Protocol, or IMAP, is a wonderful thing. It provides immediate two-way synchronization between your mail server and one or more mail clients (Outlook, Apple Mail, your mobile ...

As soon as your collection of Apple devices running OS X or iOS expands to two or more, the issue of syncing is bound to come up. You’ll want most or all of the important personal data on your first ...

Regular readers know that I’m less than fond of Microsoft Outlook, which I consider a bloated, confusing, often buggy program. But I’m sort of stuck with it, and I’ll admit I was pleasantly surprised ...

If you want to make sure you have exactly the same e-mail messages—including all your saved and sent mail-on two or more Macs, there’s an easy way and a hard way to do so. Server-Based Accounts The ...

If your business uses an Apple computer as your primary workstation, you probably use Mail to manage your email accounts. Using IMAP in Mail means that you can sync settings and folders between ...

Using Outlook 2007, I connect to a SmarterMail 5.1 server for my email using an IMAP connection. I set up an email account. All works fine.....for a few days....then it stops downloading new messages ...

Apple's Mail e-mail client supports a number of different messaging protocols including POP and IMAP, but if you convert an existing account from POP to IMAP then you may run into a problem in which e ...

Previous versions of Microsoft's Outlook email client have not pleased users who have been waiting for more support for the Internet Message Access Protocol, better known as IMAP. Indeed, the recently ...

Jeff Werner is a software engineer and has been writing this column since 2007. Question: I recently noticed that the list of emails in my iPad were different from my desktop. I always thought as I ...

In last week’s exciting installment of Gearhead I mentioned PhraseExpress published by Bartels Media GmbH and I need to correct something I wrote. To refresh your memory, PhraseExpress is a Windows ...

PSA: Microsoft is pushing the web based Outlook to Windows users without giving the option to decline syncing email to their servers and keep using the existing ...

Last evening, The Verge reported an issue by which Google Calendar in the latest build of the updated Windows 8 communications applications failed to function. TNW has learned that Microsoft has moved ...