On 9/26/2016 12:10 PM, James Wilkinson wrote:

What is "real" email?? Any email web or otherwise can be hacked.

POP3,

POP is no more "real" than any other protocol.

stored on your own computer, so you can make sure nobody gets in.

Your email could be hacked even from inside your computer if you click
on the right (wrong?) link. You could be hacked by a man in the middle
attack. You could get your account stolen or read by social engineering.
You could get your account read or stolen by a password hack. And my
guess is that you employ no encryption.

There's no extra safety in POP.