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@ -298,8 +298,10 @@ So, unless your provider can enable this extension, you cannot use FairEmail for
Besides that any decent email provider supports [IMAP](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Message_Access_Protocol) these days,
using [POP](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_Office_Protocol) will result in unnecessary extra battery usage and delayed new message notifications.
Moreover, POP is unsuitable for two way synchronization and more often than not people read and write messages on different devices.
For example marking messages as read on the server and storing (backing up) drafts on the server is not possible with POP.
Moreover, POP is unsuitable for two way synchronization and more often than not people read and write messages on different devices these days.
Basically POP supports only downloading and deleting messages from the server.
So, common operations like setting message attributes (read, starred, answered, etc), adding (backing up) and moving messages is not possible.
See also [what Google writes about it](https://support.google.com/mail/answer/7104828).