On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 4:46 AM, Ray Lopez <[email protected]> wrote:
> In general, IMAP gives you more "power" at the cost of being more > "dangerous" to your ability to control your email. For example (one > example of many), what happens when somebody hacks your Gmail account and > you cannot get in? All your emails are forever lost. By contrast, with > POP you cannot lose your emails unless you are so foolish that you don't > backup your hard drive, which few people are that foolish anymore. > I'm assuming that you are talking about retrieving emails to your computer. Email clients such as Thunderbird and Outlook will store a local copy by default. > Let's face it: most IMAP enthusiasts are what I would consider light-PC > users, such as teens, non-business people, grandma, traveling salespeople > who live for the moment and don't really need accurate email trails except > what is recorded up to the closing of a deal, or simply Google enthusiasts > like on this board. Nobody serious by my definition (granted, your > definition of serious may vary). > This is a bit of a sweeping statement. Many people use IMAP because they read their email on different devices and require for the email to by synchronised across those. How does using POP3 to retrieve email provide an accurate email trail? -- Marko -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Gmail-Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gmail-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
