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What is the main difference between imap and pop
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Sia ? 2 years, 9 months ago

Post Office Protocol (POP3) Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP)
POP is a simple protocol that only allows downloading messages from your Inbox to your local computer. IMAP is much more advanced and allows you the user to see all the folders on the mail server.
The POP server listens on port 110, and the POP with SSL secure(POP3DS) server listens on port 995 he IMAP server listens on port 143, and the IMAP with SSL secure(IMAPDS) server listens on port 993.
In POP3 the mail can only be accessed from a single device at a time. Messages can be accessed across multiple devices
To read the mail it has to be downloaded on the local system. The mail content can be read partially before downloading.
The user can not organize mails in the mailbox of the mail server. The user can organize the emails directly on the mail server.
The user can not create, delete or rename email on the mail server. The user can create, delete or rename email on the mail server.
A user can not search the content of mail before downloading to the local system. A user can search the content of mail for specific string before downloading.
It has two modes: delete mode and keep mode.
In delete mode, the mail is deleted from mail box after retrieval.
In keep mode, the mail remains in the mail box after retrieval.
Multiple redundant copies of the message are kept at the mail server, in case of loss of message of a local server, the mail can still be retrieved
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