Originally Posted by
WWGuy
Not sure what you don't like about IMAP, except perhaps that you don't understand it fully?
That's a bit presumptuous.
As you noted POP is dated technology. For email users with multiple email clients (e.g. phone, tablet, home PC, work PC, etc.) IMAP is much easier to manage.
Sometimes "dated" is better, depending on one's needs.
I do use IMAP (and yes, I understand it, thank you) on my iPhone where I check the account for my main work/personal email and delete the spam and unnecessary emails there before downloading the remainder to my pop3 client.
My emails in that client are backed up daily three different ways, two to cloud services and one to a local NAS drive.
I appreciate the security of having my emails on my local machine, not just in the cloud.