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Re:When did POP and IMAP become a “legacy protocol?” by loloquwowndueo on Sunday September 25, 2022 @06:45PM (#32977178)
Um what? Nothing in IMAP prevents you from doing the same. Just because most client implementations assume you want to keep your mail on the server by default, does not mean the protocol doesn’t account for the other possibility.

And to be fair, configuring most clients to retrieve and then delete, or keep a local copy in addition to the server one, is not difficult at all - these options are not hidden or anything.

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Re:When did POP and IMAP become a “legacy protocol?” by Angostura on Sunday October 02, 2022 @02:01PM (#33058501)
I would challenge you to show how you would configure a common IMAP client to keep email locally and delete it from the server.
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Re:When did POP and IMAP become a “legacy protocol?” by Avamander on Sunday October 02, 2022 @02:49PM (#33058981)
imapsync for example or drag'n'drop/filter in Thunderbird. Not that difficult.
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Re:When did POP and IMAP become a “legacy protocol?” by megous on Monday September 26, 2022 @07:15AM (#32981637)
POP3 is exceedingly simple protocol compared to IMAP. I'd rather use the simplest tool for the job.

In case the password leaks, attacker can only fetch new messages over POP3, and not plant them or fetch the entire archive from the server. (yeah, I can fetch and delete over IMAP too, but then what's the point of all the extra unused complexity of IMAP, it's just an extra risk)

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