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by jedberg 1929 days ago
> at least the mail doesn't reside on POP servers forever.

That's very dependent on the POP server. The protocol only tells the server that it is allowed to delete the message, not that it must.

I'm pretty sure if you use POP on gmail it just does an "archive" on the backend and the mail is still there, for example.