Originally Posted by
dioxide45
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.
My POP mail goes to a secure server which my company controls, so that's definitely much more secure than webmail.
I agree that there is potential for snooping on the way to our secure server, but that's not all in one place.