In article , Jonathan N. Little
wrote:

pop is obsolete.

Nonsense! Different service for different requirements.

it's not nonsense at all.

imap does everything pop can do and much more. there is no longer any
reason whatsoever use pop anymore, particularly since everyone now
reads their mail from multiple devices.

not only that, but many isps don't offer pop anymore.


Okay nonsense again. As I said different service for different
requirements. I run mailservers. No not *everyone* reads their mail from
multiple devices.

almost everyone does, and using imap works from only one device anyway.

Some accounts I and others need to access from
multiple devices so we use IMAP. Other accounts for business we don't
and offline storage is important so we use POP.

imap doesn't prevent offline storage.

anything pop can do, imap can also do.

there is no reason to use pop anymore. it's been replaced with
something more capable.

Some ISPs no longer
offer email...Verizon is now dumping the service but I would not say
email is obsolete.

nobody said email was obsolete.

pop, however, is.