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Re: I have stop using POP3 on my TP2

From what I know, POP services run say, every 5 mins. They connect to a server and dl whatever is new. It can't do a lot more than that.

IMAP on the other hand, stays running on your phone and stays connected to the server just idling the time away. It's not really "querying" the server the same way POP does. So as soon as you get a email, the server sends it right over to your IMAP client and it pops up almost immediately.

The main difference between the two for most people will be that you'll get almost immediate notification of new email instead of 5, 10, 15 etc min intervals.
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