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<blockquote data-quote="calltronics" data-source="post: 412630" data-attributes="member: 1354"><p>Sounds like you’ve been using an old pop3 email system.</p><p></p><p>Firstly an email program as you refer to is a program that reads emails from your actual email server and displays them on your computer.</p><p></p><p>The email server is either yours if you are a large company and run an email service or more commonly it is a service provided by the hosting company of your website (as you have your own domains I would imagine this was your operation).</p><p></p><p>So POP3 downloads the emails from the server and stores them on your computer. Lose your computer or crash it and you’ve lost the lot.</p><p></p><p>The more modern approach is to use the IMAP/SMTP mail service where your local machine running your email reader will “synchronise” with your hosts email server. All the emails will remain stored and backed up on the host, just “local” copies will be made. The host’s mail system keeps all your emails and attachments until such time as you tell it to delete them.</p><p></p><p>Now the latter option is so much neater and can be read by any device with every mail server and on multiple devices. So reading an email on your computer does not mean that you cannot read it latter on your tablet or phone.</p><p></p><p>The question you posed is not really correct but I hope this sheds some light on POP3 and IMAP and gives you some ideas to think about.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="calltronics, post: 412630, member: 1354"] Sounds like you’ve been using an old pop3 email system. Firstly an email program as you refer to is a program that reads emails from your actual email server and displays them on your computer. The email server is either yours if you are a large company and run an email service or more commonly it is a service provided by the hosting company of your website (as you have your own domains I would imagine this was your operation). So POP3 downloads the emails from the server and stores them on your computer. Lose your computer or crash it and you’ve lost the lot. The more modern approach is to use the IMAP/SMTP mail service where your local machine running your email reader will “synchronise” with your hosts email server. All the emails will remain stored and backed up on the host, just “local” copies will be made. The host’s mail system keeps all your emails and attachments until such time as you tell it to delete them. Now the latter option is so much neater and can be read by any device with every mail server and on multiple devices. So reading an email on your computer does not mean that you cannot read it latter on your tablet or phone. The question you posed is not really correct but I hope this sheds some light on POP3 and IMAP and gives you some ideas to think about. [/QUOTE]
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