On Tue, 2022-08-16 at 11:12 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > We've been over this before. There's nothing stopping you from syncing > your IMAP account to your local machine. There is *NO* advantage to > using POP, and a number of disadvantages. The only reason to ever use > it is if your mail provider doesn't support IMAP.
Hi, my bad, I haven't read the whole thread. I've got different "local" machines with different operating systems. Offline-IMAP can be a PITA and might be more or less impossible on some machines. Setting up a POP account is straightforward for power users as well as noobs. If only one MUA deletes the POP mails from the server, after n days, the mails are similar accessible by different MUAs as IMPA mails are, but without all the offline IMAP issues, such as duplicated emails. And as already pointed out by my riseup.net link, quota is an issue, maybe not for spoiled people, but for all those watching every penny. Much likely we will easily find more "exceptional cases", such as the one mentioned by Jaroslaw Rafa. However, all of us are aware of common pitfalls of IMAP as well as POP. Why don't I see this or that folder? Spam filtering on the server vs on the machine, both has got pros and cons. I will not convince anybody that POP is better than IMAP. The only point I make is that POP can be better than IMAP for some users under some circumstances. Nobody should fool around with gmail, despite of being in favour of POP or IMAP. No gmail, less problems. Regards, Ralf _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
