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That’s the good news. The bad news is that if you don’t remember to regu-
larly clean out your mail, your mailbox can overflow if your account doesn’t
have enough storage to hold it all. If your IMAP account gets full, then
when people send you email, their messages bounce back to them.
Keeping Your POP Mailboxes in Sync
The difference between POP and IMAP accounts
is that POP email lives only on whatever machine
you download it to. With IMAP, a copy automati-
cally remains on the server so you can download
it again on another device. Say you read incom-
ing email on your NOOK Tablet, delete some of it,
keep some of it, and write some new messages.
Later that day, you go to your desktop computer
and log into the same email account. You won’t
see those incoming messages you read on your
NOOK, nor the ones you sent from it.
When you’re using both your NOOK Tablet and
home computer to work with the same POP
account, how do you keep them in sync? By
making your POP account act more like an IMAP
account, so it leaves a copy of all messages on
the server when you download them to your
home computer. That way, you can delete mes-
sages on the NOOK, and still see them in your
inbox at home.
How you set it up depends on which email
program you use at home. In Outlook 2010,
choose File
➝
Account Settings, and then
double-click the account name and select More
Settings
➝
Advanced. Turn on “Leave a copy
of each message on the server.” Also turn on
“Delete messages from server after they are
deleted from this computer,” so that you won’t
fill up the server space allocated to your account.
To get to these settings in earlier versions of Outlook,
choose Tools
➝
Email Accounts
➝
EMail
➝
View
or Change Email Accounts
➝
[your account
name]
➝
Change
➝
More Settings
➝
Advanced.
In Entourage, choose Tools
➝
Accounts. Double-
click the account name, and then click Options.
WORKAROUND WORKSHOP
Reading Mail
Now that you’ve got an account, it’s time to start reading mail. Launch the email
app. You see a list of emails, and the list you see depends on what you were
doing the last time you were using the email app. As you’ll see on page 352,