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IMAP (Internet Messaging Access Protocol) has grown to become almost the de facto standard in email communication due to its flexibility in application and relative simplicity of operation.

Sent emails are not synced up to the server.

Extremely basic connection type, many POP servers only support non-encrypted connections.

Obviously, this makes working from multiple devices extremely difficult because not all messages will be stored on one device, instead of being spread randomly across multiple devices according to when you use them. When you access the server to retrieve the mail, it is then removed from the server and the only copy left is that on your local device (computer, phone, etc). The concept of POP is accurately described in the name – the server acts like a ‘post office’ to temporarily store your mail. Post Office Protocol (POP) gained popularity during the 80’s as email became a more readily accessible form of communication – users were able to send emails to a remote server where they could later be retrieved and downloaded for viewing.

We will compare the ‘conventional’ email technologies POP and IMAP versus the newer and more powerful offerings from Google and Microsoft, G Suite and Office 365, respectively. The concept of ’email’ is a very old mechanism of communication, in that the first email was sent back in the 70’s and for a long time, the one and only method of communicating with an email server to retrieve emails was through the POP protocol. This began to change over the last 10 years as different email services have begun to gain more importance in our lives. It appears that G Suite and Office 365 offer a set of robust web applications, but can they really replace POP/IMAP?