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Originally Posted by darkjedi007
I personally prefer IMAP as I like my email synced between all my sources including my phone, MS Outlook and online Gmail. I almost never delete emails unless its really useless, but instead archive them in a seperate folder. When I move my mail into the "Archive" folder, it gets deleted on my phone once it sends and receives to Gmail servers. On the website/Outlook however it's still retained in my Archive. This lets me save space on my phone, but also keeps a history of my old e-mail correspondences.
POP3 is really antiquated at this point. With services like Gmail and even Hotmail you have gigabytes of server storage so you almost never have to worry about mail space.
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I guess i'm still in the old age. For my Laptop I really prefer POP3 over IMAP. IMAP is way to slow for syncing between them. That and I often and storing and sending large files in emails and if I don't have access to the Internet or on a slow connection its painfully slow, especially when I'm a hurry to get to a file and change it, this is also much easier if I'm offline, I can just open Outlook, find the email and I have the file, no worries of Internet.
IMAP is definitely handy if you are using more than one device though. My laptop is my main source of computer usage so anywhere else I need to see email I just use the web client. Luckily the email is sent to the Trash in Gmail after it has been downloaded of the server so I can still get to a file if I need it from a different computer.