Point is, of the four methods you
mention, just ONE, BY
DEFAULT, makes sure your
email is not left on the internet server. That's POP3.
Slight nitpick: there is absolutely nothing in
RFC1939 (the
IETF protocol specification for POP3) that states that "by
default" messages will be deleted. The commands for
retrieving messages (RETR)
and deleting messages (DELE)
are completely separate and independent of each
other.
Whether or not a particular POP3 client deletes a message
from the
server after downloading is entirely a matter of
how the client is configured.
I suppose most are configured
to do so by default, but it is something that the
user should
confirm for themselves.
A side note: according to the RFC,
when the DELE
command is given by the client, the message is marked for
deletion but not actually deleted until the
client gives the QUIT
command to terminate the session. If
something other than issuance of the QUIT
command
happens to terminate the session, the server does
not delete
the marked messages.
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