Re: How to access email accounts on desktop?
 

The good thing is these days is most desktop email clients and email services will default to IMAP, so it's a synchronised copy on your computer from the server, rather than the old POP experience which is a local copy downloaded only to your desktop.

So a desktop email client is now no different than an email app on a mobile device.

Re: How to access email accounts on desktop?
 

Each to their own.;)

Re: How to access email accounts on desktop?
 

Yes.

I have multiple email accounts and accessing them all by browser would be a royal pain.

I can also access my [existing] emails when the network is down.

Printing also works better.

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Not true with VM.
I pull them using POP, but they remain on the server as well.

Re: How to access email accounts on desktop?
 

Yes, although that's not standard POP behaviour

When VM moved their mail service to Google, that then followed Google's version of POP which Gmail still does - https://www.limilabs.com/blog/gmail-pop3-behavior

So as that then by default built up an archive of mail in the inbox on the server, when VM moved to their own solution they couldn't turn on the standard POP deletion commands and follow the email client as there was a risk that it would delete the archive that customers expected to see.

So at present that amended POP behaviour still applies.

Ideally VM will change it back to align to POP standards, but it's going to be tricky thing to do without disruption.