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Originally Posted by jarland
As the default behavior of POP is to download email from the server and then delete it on the server, keeping only a local copy. If you're setting it to not delete, I can't think of a reason you'd choose POP over IMAP. It would seem to be the inferior protocol all around for any other use case.
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Some clients default to leave on server. Mine (Claws Mail) defaults to the standard, delete. I choose POP3 over IMAP because I want this behavior. I do most of my email from one device. This computer. The last time I was away for a while (3 months) I had a laptop setup same as this desktop, set all POP3 accounts on the laptop to not delete on server. When I got home I did a Get Mail on all accounts to square things up.
I do have three IMAP accounts, all are organizational accounts that will be passed on to the next person who fills my position. I also check a couple of POP3 accounts from my phone to check the Spam or Junk folders.
I have 8 POP3 and 3 IMAP accounts.