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First you choose Preferences from the Edit menu and click on Mail Servers as shown in:

First you choose Preferences from the Edit menu and click on Mail Servers as shown in:

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If you have not entered details about your mail server yet, you will need to press the Add button and enter some information. Otherwise, you will select the default mail server listed and click on the the Edit button. This will bring up a screen where you enter the username and choose whether you are using IMAP or POP3:

If you have not entered details about your mail server yet, you will need to press the Add button and enter some information. Otherwise, you will select the default mail server listed and click on the the Edit button. This will bring up a screen where you enter the username and choose whether you are using IMAP or POP3:

POP3 is the earlier, better-known email protocol. POP3 was designed to permit on-demand retrieval to a single client machine. Email is stored on the mail server until you retrieve it, at which time it is transferred over the network to your desktop machine and stored in your email box there.

POP3 is the earlier, better-known email protocol. POP3 was designed to permit on-demand retrieval to a single client machine. Email is stored on the mail server until you retrieve it, at which time it is transferred over the network to your desktop machine and stored in your email box there.

 

||Benefits of POP3|Drawbacks of POP3||

Benefits of POP3:  Even when you are not connected to your network, you have access to the email stored on your desktop.

||Even when you are not connected to your network, you have access to the email stored on your desktop.|POP3 was not originally intended to support users accessing and managing their email from remote systems. Because your email is stored on your desktop, setting up remote access of your email when you are at a different computer can be complex.||

 

Drawbacks of POP3: POP3 was not originally intended to support users accessing and managing their email from remote systems. Because your email is stored on your desktop, setting up remote access of your email when you are at a different computer can be complex.

IMAP email, in contrast, is designed to permit interactive access to multiple mailboxes from multiple client machines. You manage your email on the mail server over the network. You read your email over the network from your desktop, but the email is not stored on your desktop machine - rather, it is permanently stored and managed on the server.

IMAP email, in contrast, is designed to permit interactive access to multiple mailboxes from multiple client machines. You manage your email on the mail server over the network. You read your email over the network from your desktop, but the email is not stored on your desktop machine - rather, it is permanently stored and managed on the server.

Benefits of IMAP:  You can access all of your new and stored email from any machine connected to a network.  Because all employee email is stored on the server, backup of email is easily accomplished.

||Benefits of IMAP|Drawbacks of IMAP||

||You can access all of your new and stored email from any machine connected to a network.  Because all employee email is stored on the server, backup of email is easily accomplished.|If you are not connected to a network, new and stored email messages are not available to you.||

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