14 Feb
2022
14 Feb
'22
5:25 a.m.
On Mon, 2022-02-14 at 08:34 +1100, Cameron Simpson wrote:
POP3's not great for that - there's only one serverside mail folder, not much state (I think you can mark things as read maybe - or maybe that too is client side). _If_ you're keeping your email server side, IMAP is a better choice.
AFAIK POP servers don't keep any per-message state, nor can you download messages selectively, nor indeed download only the headers as you can with IMAP.
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