Computer Help and Support

The switch from POP to IMAP "shouldn't" be a big deal. The email service is basically the same. The POP vs. IMAP protocol is usually just a matter of how your mail-application reads the mail off the server.

Where IMAP really is much better than POP is if you have more than one device that is interacting with the mail server. POP was fine if you just had one pc that you always used to read your mail. But IMAP makes it easy to read your mail on multiple devices (a phone, tablet, pc) and yet still download it off the server into your computer at some point.

Any mail reading application released and maintained in the last many years should be able to support both POP and IMAP.

USENET! Omg