[Dovecot] Disallow POP3 from deleting messages

Thomas Leuxner tlx at leuxner.net
Wed Mar 20 15:51:45 EET 2013


* DormitionSkete at hotmail.com <dormitionskete at hotmail.com> 2013.03.20 14:35:

> > Their Mail Clients natively support IMAP, so not sure why you would want to go with POP3 in this scenario.
> 
> 
> Well, like I said, we have real slow upload speeds.  I think POP3 would give a better user experience.

The clients mentioned will cache the messages locally. They will download headers first while they will retrieve the rest in the background. iOS Devices will even apply thresholds on larger messages downloading them partly and completing the rest upon request.

Regards
Thomas
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