Despite the success and growing acceptance of workplace chat applications, most businesses rely on email to communicate internally and with customers. However, not every Gmail user wants to use Google’s email client because many prefer to use Microsoft Outlook or Apple Mail instead.

For this reason, the search giant has enabled Google Workspace administrators to enable Gmail IMAP and Gmail POP separately and enable access via IMAP on an ad-based basis on the admin console.

The difference between both IMAP and POP incoming email protocols is that an email with POP is downloaded from a mail server to a device and then deleted from the server where IMAP stores email messages permanently on a server so that they can be synchronized.