Everyone always argues over POP3 and IMAP.
POP3 or Post Office Protocol, essentially means that when you press the send and receive button, you are downloading that mail from the server. Therefore the only copy of that email exists on your computer, not on the mail server or anywhere else. Not great if you want to read your email on the move.
IMAP lets you download a copy of that email. Therefore when you want to access your email from your iPad instead of your desktop, you can do, as all your mail is stored on the server as well as on your computer / iPad / phone / any other device.
Therefore I can only recommend IMAP. The number of times I've seen people loose all their mail then complain that the email server didn't have a copy is silly. Just use IMAP from now on and hopefully the number of these cases will go down!
POP3 is great if you want to be extremely secure and you use decent backup procedures. However, that's not most people, so go with IMAP as your default!
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