What do they mean? I know what they stand for and what they mean but are they different devices? What does it mean in this context?
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IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol) is a standard email protocol that stores email messages on a mail server, but allows the end user to view and manipulate the messages as though they were stored locally on the end user's computing device(s).
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Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) is an Internet standard for electronic mail (email) transmission. First defined by RFC 821 in 1982, it was last updated in 2008 with the Extended SMTP additions by RFC 5321—which is the protocol in widespread use today.
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IMAP means you can use a mail reader program, and SMTP means you use a browser and go to a website to read your mail.
Okay but what I don't understand is when I go to my activity on gmail to see you know where i logged in from that shows my IP etc, it will either say like Browser (Chrome) and IMAP/SMTP can you basically tell me what this means? All of that basically is a foreign language to me.