When did POP and IMAP become a “legacy protocol?”

Re:When did POP and IMAP become a “legacy protocol?” by johannes1234321 on Monday September 26, 2022 @07:18AM (#32981668)

> I know people who knowingly use POP to keep their remote boxes empty, and keep everything local, so I don't think we should decide for people that swiftly.

That could be done using IMAP as well. The overhead for that use case seems quite small. However it is just one protocol to support. And I haverun into a bunch of non-techy users with problems like "if i read my mails on my desktop I can't access them on my phone anymore, so I always use the phone"-like problems, which tells me their mail client on desktop likely uses POP3. By not offering POP3 you are removing that class of support problems with very little downside.

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Re:When did POP and IMAP become a “legacy protocol?” by rexreed on Monday September 26, 2022 @08:02AM (#32982042)

In what way can you configure IMAP to not leave messages on the server and yet still give multiple clients access to that email?

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Re:When did POP and IMAP become a “legacy protocol?” by denton-scratch on Monday September 26, 2022 @09:19AM (#32982747)

If you use POP (and allow it to delete downloaded messages from the server), you still can't access your mail from multiple clients.

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