Originally Posted by
Sam5
I never use webmail/IMAP. Simply put, I don't trust it. There are too many anecdotes of searches without a warrant, snooping by webmail provider employees, webmail providers changing their terms/discontinuing their service offering.
I want my e-mails in my e-mail client and ONLY in my e-mail client. My client uses TLS encryption to connect to the server for both sending and receiving, and that's pretty much that.
Your POP e-mails still go through an ISP and that ISP can retain them just like a webmail server. There really isn't much difference. Employees can snoop through old backups just like webmail. Those e-mails also hit many other servers along their path to your POP client.