diff --git a/FAQ.md b/FAQ.md index 93749e82f5..67b2739aab 100644 --- a/FAQ.md +++ b/FAQ.md @@ -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).