On 15/10/2013 02:58, /dev/rob0 wrote:
In addition to the ignored replies in the other thread, I'll ask this: why do you want to use POP3? IMAP can do everything POP3 can do, and it's superior in many ways. POP3 should have died out a decade ago.
Not sure what country he's in, but I'll comment on that comment :) Some countries, disks are not cheap, for instance in Australia, disks and most hardware is on average over 200% more expensive, than the U.S., I've been given some pricing that makes it 350% dearer.
Most ISP's here, even the most largest ones, only offer pop3 - imap is reserved for those very few using webmail.
Of the very few that do offer imap, the take up rate over the years is negligible, such that it is not worth the effort, likely due to privacy which most aussies take seriously.
Although we are not as bad as the US with its publicised broad over reaching FISA warrants, it is still all too easy for law enforcement here to get warrants to secretly access your mail if on ISP servers, but bloody hard to do so if you use pop3 and have already d/l it to whatever device/client you choose to use.
Then there's the other law, yes, those obnoxious jackass interfering govt #$E# with nothing else to do but regulate everything but "thin air" (give em time they'll do that too), IOW, imap, providing a service where every single email is stored on servers, you are accountable for, and must be recovered, even if idiot1234 deletes a message by mistake and when you say, no, you deleted it tuff luck, you can be sued for their loss of data.
With pop3 that onus and risk is removed.