Re: [Evolution] Errors receiving mail via POP

[Ralf Mardorf <ralf mardorf rocketmail com>]

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.