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12 Mar 2018, 01:52 AM | #1 |
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POP3 for the Long Haul?
What are the long-term prospects for POP3 at Runbox?
One of the reasons I'm quitting Comcast (in additional to terrible customer service) is that they keep hinting they are moving away from POP3 (which servers are becoming more and more unreliable) in favor of IMAP. Some of us dinosaurs still like to download and store all our e-mail on our own computers. A few still even refuse to carry a smart phone. I plan never to switch to IMAP and need an e-mail provider on which I can rely not to dump POP3. Is Runbox the one? -- jclarkw |
12 Mar 2018, 06:43 AM | #2 |
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Hello jclarkw2. An interesting question. We do promote our IMAP service in preference to POP for a variety of reasons mentioned at the link below:
https://help.runbox.com/imap/ That said, we have no plans to drop POP, and when we moved to our current POP service we did ensure that we kept all the same functionality as with the previous service including the POP from Folder feature. More recently we included POP in our upgrades to ensure that only secure connections could be made to our servers. I think the above shows a commitment to keep POP even though it is declining in popularity in general. While we can't offer guarantees, we can say that we have no current plans to drop POP. I hope that helps. |
12 Mar 2018, 07:03 AM | #3 |
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I'm struggling to think of any real advantages of POP over IMAP... I'd be interested to hear what they might be. |
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12 Mar 2018, 11:02 PM | #6 | |
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Add to dbowdley's list: 4) You can still access previously received or sent email during Internet or server outages (as we had for a couple of days last weekend with Comcast), and 5) If you're security and privacy conscious, as I imagine most Runbox users are, then leaving all your e-mail in someone else's control (not that there's any real risk in the case of Runbox) might make you nervious. From my archaic point of view, the main reason to use IMAP is to access the same e-mail store from multiple devices, not a problem I have or expect since I do everything from one laptop. -- jclarkw |
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