On Tue, 2022-08-16 at 13:10 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Tue, 2022-08-16 at 12:19 +0200, Jaroslaw Rafa via evolution-list > wrote: > > Dnia 16.08.2022 o godz. 11:12:12 Patrick O'Callaghan pisze: > > > We've been over this before. There's nothing stopping you from > > > syncing > > > your IMAP account to your local machine. There is *NO* advantage > > > to > > > using POP, and a number of disadvantages. The only reason to ever > > > use > > > it is if your mail provider doesn't support IMAP. > > > > There is one more valid reason to use POP: if you have a main mail > > account > > (A) and a secondary one (B), and you want to have all messages from > > account > > B forwarded to account A, but account B doesn't allow to configure > > forwarding. > > > > If account A allows to configure fetching mail via POP from remote > > accounts, > > you can then configure some way of "forwarding" from B to A by > > fetching mail > > via POP. > > Yes, I would concede that. I occasionally do that as it's a way of > fetching mail *into* my Gmail account from another account. However > that's a special case.
Just to add that this isn't an actual advantage of POP in itself. It's a "necessary evil" because Gmail doesn't support fetching via IMAP from a different service. poc _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
