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Re:When did POP and IMAP become a “legacy protocol?” by 0x457 on Sunday September 25, 2022 @07:32PM (#32977589)
Yeah, it's much better with POP3, when one client downloads everything it deletes it from the server /s

This isn't IMAP limitation, this is how clients implemented it. Nothing stops one to download every message over IMAP and never delete them.

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Re:When did POP and IMAP become a “legacy protocol?” by Angostura on Sunday October 02, 2022 @02:17PM (#33058660)
Common POP I implementations let me leave things on the server indefinitely, for a chosen period, or to delete immediately on retrieval, leaving the local copy intact. Can you think of any IMAP implementations that allow that?
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