Originally Posted by cblaisd

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.