Isn’t the only difference between pop and imap that pop removes the mail from the server? I only use imap, and all my email is available offline.

POP is a simple mail transfer protocol (hehe...). It supports three things: get number of mails, download mail by number, delete mail by number. This is what you need to move mails in bulk from one point to another. POP3 mail clients are local maildir clients that use POP3 to get new mail from the server. It's like SMTP if it were based on polling.

IMAP is an interactive protocol that is closer to the interaction between Gmail frontend and backend. It does many things. The client implements a local view of a central source of truth.

No, the difference is that IMAP doesn't store anything other than headers on the client (at least, not until the user tries to read a message), while POP3 eagerly downloads messages whenever they're available. A POP3 client can be configured with various remote retention policies, or even to never delete downloaded messages.

I don't have an IMAP account available to check, but AFAIK, you should not have locally the content of any message you've never read before. The whole point of IMAP is that it doesn't download messages, but instead acts like a window into the server.

Also, IMAP syncs the other way. If you locally tag a message locally or move it to another folder, it also happens on the server.

Not at all. IMAP can do a lot of complex operations on the email while leaving it on the server, for example you can have the server search the email, flag it (mark it important, or read, or unread).

POP can download the email, and that's about it.

Yeah, because then the client can do whatever it wants with the messages. The operations don't need any further support from the protocol.

The idea with IMAP is multiple clients can work with your email - for example your desktop and your phone can both see the same messages and manipulate them, even offline.

Gmail basically is IMAP with a couple extras, and your desktop (via a browser) and your phone (via a dedicated app) can both see the same messages. Only the phone can work offline though, because there is little demand for a dedicated desktop email client, it's always via a browser. But Google could easily make such a thing if they wanted.

Depending on what you configured. It can also keep the mail on the server.

It seems people dont understand the basics...

We dont need more stuff - we need more quality and less of the shit stuff.

Im convinced many involved in the production of LLM models are far too deep in the rabbit hole and cant see straight.

It also says my website is hosted on GitHub pages, although it’s served from a hetzner server.

EDIT: on further inspection: I get both a red cross AND a green check mark for hosting. So it’s somehow indicating both GitHub and hetzner. Maybe it’s because I merely link to GitHub?

Fixed. I was matching a link TO GitHub as hosting ON GitHub. Now only embeds and actual hosting count, not href links.

Sorry and thanks for pointing me there.

It’s 2026 ;-)

If I'm going to be a grumpy old man on hacker news you can at least let me live in last year :)

I managed to turn it off. But forgot the details. Maybe it was the “RUXIM” binary? I think I unchecked the executable flag for that .exe, or I removed it from the task scheduler.

Anyways, it is possible!

Yeah, I am also confused they didn’t include a screenshot (or photo in this case). It’s the first thing you’ll want to see for such a project.

There is much more nuance to it: https://ibestuur.nl/markt-en-overheid/digitale-infrastructuu...

If you want to check the statement, you only have to read the type. The proof itself you don’t have to read at all

When I bought my Bose QC ten years ago, I tried a lot of brands and found Bose to have the most pleasant sound, very clear/neutral. I guess it’s personal taste.

You shouldn’t blame it on the browsers that certain websites are malicious.

I expect the software I use to properly sanitise untrusted inputs, yes

Sure, but still, why blame (only) the browser?

I was also blaming the OS for not having preemptive multi-tasking? And once we've blamed the OS and the browser... not sure who else is in this equation.

The web developer is not in this equation, because I have no way to know their server hasn't been hacked, and hence even if I trust them personally, anything they send me is explicitly untrusted