Some thoughts on email: POP vs IMAP, local storage vs the cloud

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In today's video I share my thoughts on whether or not it's worth shifting our de facto email protocol from the widely used IMAP or webmail solutions more towards POP and local storage. Does IMAP bring with it the same potential problems as other cloud solutions?



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