Talk:POP3 Accounts

"...some users configure their POP clients to leave the messages on the server, even after they have already downloaded them safely to their desktop. Why in the world would someone do that?" Because some users don't consider their desktop to be a "safe" repository for storage of important messages, and there's a poverty of simple, reliable and free message-store archival solutions for Windows users. So if Outlook or Thunderbird or whatever flakes out and mangles its client-side message store, or if their local disk drive fails irrecoverably, some users want to be able to refresh their local message store direct from the server. Is that so wrong?