Re: [Evolution] Evolution and gmail

[Ralf Mardorf <silver bullet zoho com>]

On Tue, 2022-08-16 at 11:12 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> We've been over this before. There's nothing stopping you from syncing
> your IMAP account to your local machine. There is *NO* advantage to
> using POP, and a number of disadvantages. The only reason to ever use
> it is if your mail provider doesn't support IMAP.

Hi,

my bad, I haven't read the whole thread.

I've got different "local" machines with different operating systems.
Offline-IMAP can be a PITA and might be more or less impossible on some
machines. Setting up a POP account is straightforward for power users as
well as noobs. If only one MUA deletes the POP mails from the server,
after n days, the mails are similar accessible by different MUAs as IMPA
mails are, but without all the offline IMAP issues, such as duplicated
emails. And as already pointed out by my riseup.net link, quota is an
issue, maybe not for spoiled people, but for all those watching every
penny.

Much likely we will easily find more "exceptional cases", such as the
one mentioned by Jaroslaw Rafa. However, all of us are aware of common
pitfalls of IMAP as well as POP. Why don't I see this or that folder?
Spam filtering on the server vs on the machine, both has got pros and
cons.

I will not convince anybody that POP is better than IMAP. The only point
I make is that POP can be better than IMAP for some users under some
circumstances.

Nobody should fool around with gmail, despite of being in favour of POP
or IMAP. No gmail, less problems.

Regards,
Ralf