What is the point of IMAP?

From what I have seen of handshaking messages, my ISP supports IMAP. From
what I have read about IMAP, it offers nothing that as a single user, I
cannot have with POP3.

Leaving messages on the server: that is a setting in a POP client. Viewing
messages on the Web doesn't delete them, anyway, so later retrieval via POP
is not an issue.

Multiple users accessing emails: who wants it? Emails are supposed to be as
confidential as ordinary mail. I could read my wife's emails, but I don't.
Perhaps corporate management can spam their employees more easily. That is
about the only advantage I can think of. In the real world, what
proportion of non-spam is intended for broad distribution (except mailing
lists, of course)?

Doug.
--
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly, for you tread on my dreams.
- W.B. Yeats.

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