The caveat is that if your account gets banned, the IMAP access will also be blocked. An email forward is more likely to remain active, is the point made in TFA.
The caveat is that if your account gets banned, the IMAP access will also be blocked. An email forward is more likely to remain active, is the point made in TFA.
There is nobody but me who can ban my account. If the hosting service I rent my mail server from chose to drop me as a client, I could sign up with a different service, transfer the domain name, and keep on going with minimal disruption.