Re: POP3 is horrible
And THAT'S the huge issue. If you change providers (change ISP, for example), you lose your emails, don't you? With IMAP, unless you make a local repository and manually copy all your emails to those folders, you lose your emails, correct?
Yeah, but no, but I've done this many times, and I usually point imapsync at both the old and new mailboxes and go to the pub. Probably beyond the realms of your average Joe schmo user but it is possible with very little pain, once the metric ton of Perl dependencies are installed.