Problems with POP3 (was: Re: Akonadi with PostgreSQL 14)

[Peter Humphrey]

On Friday, 19 November 2021 10:04:17 GMT Ingo Klöcker wrote:

> Yes, that. It's a general problem of software development that features that
> are not used by the developers on a regular basis rot much more quickly
> than features they use regularly.

Quite so - if it was ever fault-free to begin with; I don't know one way or 
the other.

> Moreover, with POP3 there are fundamental technical issues if you use the
> "leave messages on the server" option. If the server doesn't play nice, then
> old messages may be reported as new by the server. If you need to read your
> messages on multiple computers, then IMAP is the only sensible option.
> POP3's "leave messages on the server" is a kludge.

That isn't it in my case. My ISP doesn't allow leaving messages on their 
server, but still KMail misbehaves with POP3.

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Regards,
Peter.