On 11/12/2012 05:55 PM, John Hinton wrote: > A really good use for POP is for more sensitive email situations, such > as legal, medical or financial. Some of our users want it 'off' the > server soonest. But yes, IMAP is more the standard these days. We allow > either using Dovecot. POP is faster, after a mailbox gets large. POP > reduces online storage use and is easier to back up. There are > advantages for some users and all administrators. So, to me, long live > POP but we do encourage our users to set up their accounts using IMAP. >
If the information in an email is sensible, then it should be encrypted. If sensible information is transfered unencrypted then stored for a while unencrypted on a server storage, then you can't really know who has had access to it, can you? Cheers, Mikael