Why ProtonMail is more secure than Gmail

Re:Why ProtonMail is more secure than Gmail by bhandziuk on Monday October 23, 2017 @05:03PM (#15536914)

>POP3 protocol typically deletes the email upon retrieval

What POP3 client are you using that does this? I've not seen it before. It gets marked as read but that's it.

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Re:Why ProtonMail is more secure than Gmail by linkregister on Monday October 23, 2017 @07:00PM (#15537640)

Geez, Eudora? Outlook Express maybe? I haven’t used POP3 in a decade.

It used to delete from the server after downloading locally. This was when most email mailboxes had a capacity of 10MB.

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Re:Why ProtonMail is more secure than Gmail by bhandziuk on Tuesday October 24, 2017 @12:31PM (#15542859)

I'm writing something that uses POP3 right now and thankfully it doesn't delete anything. I'd have to do things a lot differently if that were the case

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