Paul, Thanks for the insight. There is an IMAP option in Evolution to synchronize the email, but I have not found much info about this option. Does anyone know what it does and the pros/cons?
My objective is to have a local copy (on my computer or email server) of all sent and received email, while leaving about 4 months worth on the isp server for remote use. periodically, I take the email from the inbox and sent and place them in subject folders. My question is how do I do that with Evolution, or any email application? On Wed, Dec 2, 2015, at 01:37 PM, Paul Smith wrote: > On Wed, 2015-12-02 at 13:21 -0500, dave boland wrote: > > Am I correct in thinking POP did download the messages for local > > storage? > > Correct. This is the major difference between POP and IMAP. > > POP is a simple delivery facility for email: when you access it it > downloads the entire mailbox from the server to your local system then > (by default) deletes the content on the server. So your local system's > version is the one true version of your mail that has already been > delivered. Some POP servers support options to not delete the content > on the server, but that means they'll all get downloaded again next > time. Also you can't "upload" things to a POP server so information > like what messages you've replied to, what's been deleted, etc. cannot > be updated on the server. It all exists only on your local system. > > IMAP is fundamentally different: the master copy of mail is left on the > IMAP server and your local mail client interacts with the server to > perform actions like retrieve mail, delete mail, move messages between > mailboxes, etc. This lets you have multiple mail clients access mail > and see a relatively up-to-date view of your mail. It also means that > any messages stored locally on your system are merely cached there for > performance reasons, and you can delete your local disk cache and they > will not be lost. But of course, once something is deleted on the > server you can't access it any more locally, usually, unless you've made > a backup. > > There are lots of articles on the web about the differences too. > > Cheers! -- dave boland dbola...@fastmail.fm -- http://www.fastmail.com - Faster than the air-speed velocity of an unladen european swallow _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
