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If you use POP for your mail client, your client downloads the mails from the server that then deletes them and you only have them on your computer (Unless you
by Moru 6y ago
If you use POP for your mail client, your client downloads the mails from the server that then deletes them and you only have them on your computer (Unless you use Gmail that does some hybrid thing storing the old emails but marks them as read I believe)
- wott 6y agoPOP3 doesn't automatically delete the emails it fetched (with RETR). It has to emit another specific command (DELE) for this purpose. So, keeping or not keeping mails on the server is a matter of configuration in your client. I think all clients propose this choice and some will also add extra options like deleting only after a number of days since fetching.
- wvenable 6y agoYou could use POP but I don't see why you would.