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Presumably privacy and security related. IMAP keeps a copy of the email on the server, while POP deletes it
by warent 4y ago
Presumably privacy and security related. IMAP keeps a copy of the email on the server, while POP deletes it
- lou1306 4y agoI am pretty sure IMAP can be configured to delete mail from server after sync, and anyway Google has all the time in the world to scan your emails before you delete them.
- Grazester 4y agoI learnt this the hard way in the early days of interneting. Lost all my emails after an IBM hard drive died on me and my email client was using POP to retrieve mail.
- gw98 4y agoDeskStar? I also lost everything to one of those drives. Fortunately I had (some) backups
- Grazester 4y agoIt sure was!
- Scene_Cast2 4y agoI remember them being nicknamed DeathStars.
- brnt 4y agoPop can be configured either way, but what I wonder: doesn't this presume you only ever use one client? For me that would not work at all. Unless you sync mail between your clients another way, then I am all ears.
- gsich 4y agoNo, because you can keep the mail on the server. But you said that yourself.