On 8/21/15, Ed Greshko ed.greshko@greshko.com wrote:
On 08/21/15 19:23, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On Fri, 2015-08-21 at 10:50 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
On 08/21/15 10:14, jd1008 wrote:
Phew!!! THAT WAS IT!!!
Oh, this may be the "real" POP3 solution you're needing....
Although, in all honesty, IMAP is the better solution. There is *no* advantage in using POP, even if the guy wants to download all his mail locally.
I know. I think I said "use IMAP" at least 3 times. But some folks are just..... :-) :-)
Just my 2 cents on this.
I still use POP3 (concurrently with IMAP) simply because I've encountered on more than one occasion (maybe a software bug, misunderstanding of what the option in software settings meant, or some misclick accident) where Thunderbird implicitly cleared out the older offline messages.
So while I know IMAP is supposed to be the right solution especially for syncing sent emails, sometimes it just feels safer to have the "wrong" solution as a backup too.