On Wed, 2014-09-03 at 12:45 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote: > On Wed, 2014-09-03 at 13:28 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > Why do people still use POP [...]? > > > > Because of the issues I experienced when using IMAP, such as receiving > > the messages two times. I never run into such evil issues when using > > POP. Once there are multiple copies of hundreds of emails in your > > private email archive, you can't get rid of those. > > POP was always much more prone to duplicating emails because of the way > the message IDs are used in POP. It's why all the dedup > plugins/programs/protocols were created. > > I've never heard of a problem of IMAP duplicating emails and, knowing > how the protocol works, I can't see how it can! The view you see in > your mailbox is what is on the server, so something else must be > duplicating the mails. You may have seen a problem when using an IMAP > server, but it's not an IMAP protocol issue per se.
To be fair, I experienced the duplicated emails issue for POP too, when I tested KMail, but never with Evolution. _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
