I use POP3 with Thunderbird to organize messages into my own historic archive without having to think about it. Retrieving email is automatic, and filtering (different from what I'd have with IMAP) takes care of the rest. Being able to search through years worth of email across the many ISPs I've had over time (PM being just the latest) in a single consolidated POP3 account is priceless. Any IMAP solution provides less functionality and more effort.
Call me lazy, but I would love to make my life simpler with POP3 access :-)
Ken
I use POP3 with Thunderbird to organize messages into my own historic archive without having to think about it. Retrieving email is automatic, and filtering (different from what I'd have with IMAP) takes care of the rest. Being able to search through years worth of email across the many ISPs I've had over time (PM being just the latest) in a single consolidated POP3 account is priceless. Any IMAP solution provides less functionality and more effort.
Call me lazy, but I would love to make my life simpler with POP3 access :-)