[PopAlongKid]

> POP3 is better for my use case.

Same here. I want to "receive" each message exactly once, not have it synced automatically all over the place. I only handle my email from either my desktop computer or my laptop, with a simple script to copy it all back and forth whenever I switch the device I am using.

I was on call for my jobs for decades and never had any problems with this method, however it was before smartphones became common. I do not handle email on my smartphone, ever.

[pmontra]

This made me remember that for a while I used unison to sync the Thunderbird mail directory of my laptop with my EEEPC netbook (remember those things?) because a cheap 1 kg small machine was perfect to carry around on one week vacations, just in case... Then smartphones happened and killed that use case.