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POP for the "authoritative copy" downloaded to my desktop; IMAP for devices to see "what's new since I was last at my desk". POP is signficantly faster than IMAP for the former - no extraneous folder scans, no slow UUID syncs.

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Seems like you have a similar use-case as me. How do you deal with sent messages between the POP client and the IMAP clients? How and where do you store the authorative copies of the sent mail?

I use Google Apps as my server, which collects into "Sent Items" any email I sent from the POP client (and makes them available over IMAP should I need them).

For mail sent from my IMAP clients, I use "automatically BCC myself" thus ensuring a copy ends up at the POP client.

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