It is a bit more complicated though because people generally expect to manage their data/emails on multiple devices. IMAP does this pretty well but POP and STMP don’t really do this particularly great on their own. It probably isn’t that hard to offer something barebones for a low cost but it does get increasingly hard to match the expectations of “free” offerings because they are super convenient and they know how to keep you locked in to their —choose you own undiplomatic word within your level of comfort here—
1 Like