THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN IMAP AND POP3

When setting up your computer or device to access your Custom Domain Name based Email Account you may decide within the settings of your email software (or app), which settings you wish to utilize: incoming mail server and Port. Both are different and impact how much storage is being utilized. Please see your setup configuration sent to you from SAHDIGITAL.

Incoming Server and Port (options) :

	POP3	POP3 downloads and removes email from the mail-server to a single computer, making those emails only accessible on that specific computer.
	IMAP	IMAP stores emails on the mail-server and then can be synced across multiple devices. IMAP is more advanced than POP3 and allows you to access your email from anywhere, and on most all device by storing the mail on the mail server.

Both POP3 and IMAP email accounts include Webmail access.

* IMAP, POP3 and SMTP require authentication.

** Webmail is the perfect way to delete unwanted email to free up space.

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