> I know people who knowingly use POP to keep their remote boxes empty, and keep everything local, so I don't think we should decide for people that swiftly. T

> I know people who knowingly use POP to keep their remote boxes empty, and keep everything local, so I don't think we should decide for people that swiftly. That could be done using IMAP as well. The overhead for that use case seems quite small. However it is just one protocol to support. And I haverun into a bunch of non-techy users with problems like "if i read my mails on my desktop I can't access them on my phone anymore, so I always use the phone"-like problems, which tells me their mail client on desktop likely uses POP3. By not offering POP3 you are removing that class of support problems with very little downside.