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Re:Customer's 20-year-old email account shut down over unusu... by cperciva on Tuesday July 04, 2017 @06:11PM (#14698658)
It's not that I see a benefit to POP3; it's just that I've never seen a reason to switch. I download my email to a desktop client.
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Re:Customer's 20-year-old email account shut down over unusu... by Sir_Substance on Tuesday July 04, 2017 @06:15PM (#14698676)
IMAP does that as well, you just don't have to delete it from the server to do so.
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Re:Customer's 20-year-old email account shut down over unusu... by cperciva on Tuesday July 04, 2017 @08:00PM (#14699097)
You can run POP3 without deleting mail from the server. The POP3 commands for "download message" and "delete message" are completely independent; I typically have my mail client set to delete messages from the server 14 days after downloading them, so that I'll always have recent email in two places.
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