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@ -297,10 +297,11 @@ So, unless your provider can enable this extension, you cannot use FairEmail for
**(11) Why is POP not supported?** **(11) Why is POP not supported?**
Besides that any decent email provider supports [IMAP](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Message_Access_Protocol) these days, 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 battery usage and delayed new message notifications. 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 email on different devices. 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.
See also [here](https://support.google.com/mail/answer/7104828) about what Google writes about it. See also [what Google writes about it](https://support.google.com/mail/answer/7104828).
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