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Q: What is the diffrence between POP3 and IMAP mail server ?
Q: What is the diffrence between POP3 and IMAP mail server ?
| IMAP (Internet Nessaging Access Protocol) | POP3 (Post Office Protocol) | |
| 1 | Emails are stored in Mail Server. | Emails are stored in your local computer. Can enable to store a copy of all mails in server. |
| 2 | Easy to reconfigure the mail account to another computer. | Difficult to backup and restore the complete mail from one computer to another. |
| 3 | Emails can be checked easily from diffrent devices same time | Difficult to check from different devices |
| 4 | Does not provide offline reading of old emails | Provides Offline access to old emails |
| 5 | Fast reading of downloaded mails | Speed depends on connection bandwidth |
| 6 | Cannot backup mails to storage devices | Can backup mails to storage devices |
| 7 | Server will have high load due to mail access requests from users | Server will have less load due to all mails are forwarded to local client computers |
