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linkregister on Oct 23, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why ProtonMail is more secure than Gmail

Geez, Eudora? Outlook Express maybe? I haven’t used POP3 in a decade.

It used to delete from the server after downloading locally. This was when most email mailboxes had a capacity of 10MB.

bhandziuk on Oct 24, 2017 [–]

I'm writing something that uses POP3 right now and thankfully it doesn't delete anything. I'd have to do things a lot differently if that were the case

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