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Disadvantages of pop3 email

Started by John23, June 24, 2010, 12:50:06 PM

John23

Hi,

These are some disadvantages of pop3 email

# If you have JavaScript enabled in your email reader, you might be target of rogue JavaScript embedded in an email.
# All messages are stored on your hard drive eating up what is sometimes very valuable space.
# Opening attachments is a quick and painless process, unless the attachment has a virus payload in it.
# Since all attachments are stored (downloaded) on your PC there is a potential danger of virus attack if they are not properly scanned by virus scanners. Then vairus scans can only address 60% of attacks effectively leaving your PC to a great danger.
# Email folders can become corrupted and sometimes lost forever. Recovering is often a painful exercise.
# All messages are stored on your system, and privacy disappears when someone sits down at your machine. Even if your email reader is password protected, it is often possible for someone who knows what they are doing to read your email by using another application to open your mail folders.

If you know more then this, feel free to add.

Akshay_M

POP is an old clunky email protocol and majority of users have moved to IMAP in last decade or so.

Advantages of POP:

Email is stored locally, so it's accessible without internet connection
You have the option to leave a copy of the message on the server
You only need internet to send and receive emails
Saves space on the server your email accounts are hosted on
Disadvantages:

You always download the entire email instead of headers only like on IMAP so it's slower
Emails should be only downloaded to one device as there's no syncing capability
You need to worry about backing up your emails instead of doing this server-side