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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: Can't receive mail with a POP account with Yosemite
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Date: 2 Aug 2014 13:36:54 GMT
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On 2014-08-02, MartinC <noreply@nospam.invalid> wrote:
> Am 02.08.14 um 13:04 schrieb nospam:
>
>> it could, and it's not just with beta software either.
>
> Thanks for your quick reply / explanation, it was exactly what I thought...
>
> That was actually my point, once a software is able to delete mails, 
> then one might be aware of dangers if you use beta and/or buggy software 
> on your mail account.
>
> But that won't be a problem of POP3 vs. IMAP. There's a function to 
> delete a mail with POP3, and there's a function to delete a mail with 
> IMAP, and if you consider that the "delete" function may run wild, it 
> makes no difference which protocol will then deliver the wrong "delete" 
> command.

One major difference is that many mail clients come with a default
behavior where they delete messages from POP servers as soon as they are
received by the mail client, while they do *not* delete IMAP messages as
soon as they are received.

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