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Consider proposing POP instead of IMAP by default

In the light of #8999 (closed), IMAP will most likely keep on having security issues for people doing encrypted emails without them noticing. So I’m wondering why we propose POP by default and not IMAP (as in Claws by default).

  • If we are afraid of people losing emails while doing configuration attempts, then we could configure POP to not remove email from the server by default.
  • Furthermore, doing POP over Tor must be way more comfortable than doing IMAP.
  • This will likely have some beneficial side effect as more people might configure their POP through the configuration assistant and avoid the persistence issue of #6263 (closed).

Parent Task: #5663 (closed)

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Original created by @sajolida on 9303 (Redmine)

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