You can't get your junk mail or sent mail with only POP, so you still have to login to the web site to see if you are missing any messages in the junk folder.
On Monday, 4 July 2011 00:41:57 UTC+10, VulcanTourist wrote: > > Since GMail, HotMail, and Yahoo already support POP3 delivery > internally, and accounts for those services can be configured as POP3 > in Thunderbird with the publicly available servers for each, exactly > when and why would these extensions ever be needed for those services > in particular? It seems that this adds an unnecessary level of > complexity, since HTTP is not an e-mail protocol and changes to how > the "Webmail" interfaces work could break these extensions, which > NEVER happens with POP3/SMTP. > > When are these actually needed? >
