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Do POP3 and IMAP Clash When Syncing the same account


I am currently trying out IMAP with a few of my email accounts on both macs and pcs using Outlook. It seems to work fine (better on PC Outlook) to a certain extent, but there are a few issues which I cannot get to the bottom of.

Every now and again I get Send/Receive errors saying that Outlook cannot contact my server. Could this be because I have both POP and IMAP set up on the same account on several computers and they are therefore clashing when syncing with the server?

UPDATE In other words, if I disable the account that is using POP, will the errors go?


Solution

  • No; that would happen if the server is down (or buggy)