I this really has only very remotely to do with Finale. On the other
hand it has to do with the Finale mailing list, so perhaps there will be
some clever person here with some answers.
I currently use several email accounts as POP accounts. All the mail
gets downloaded to my computer, and deleted on the server. On my
computer the mail is sorted. so that Finale list mail goes into the
Finale list folder and so on.
I have been living quite happily with this arrangement. Other than list
mail I don't usually delete mail at all, and I keep all these emails in
my email application. I estimate the amount of email on all my accounts,
including the complete sent-mail folders (which I never empty, so I
still have every single email I ever wrote) to be around 50000 emails.
Add to that the Finale list, which I erase sporadically. Usually I empty
the folder after a few months, but I have been lazy lately, so it has
filled up with almost 10000 mails. I have a few other mailing lists I
subscribe to, but none as active as Finale.
Now something has changed: Santa gave me a nice little iPhone, and I am
happily writing emails from it, too. And questions came up. Would IMAP
serve me better?
One of the reasons I started thinking about this is the Finale mail
which I'd love to at least sort into a folder. The only way to do this
on the iPhone is to use IMAP and do it on the server. I can work out how
all of this functions, but surely it is not practical to keep thousands
of emails on the server?
Is there a way to have IMAP emails live on only on my computer after a
certain period of time, say a few days for Finale, and perhaps a month
for personal email, yet never lose anything completely?
Perhaps I am missing something, but does IMAP allow me to use it like
POP with only added convenience, or am I then required to keep
everything on the server all the time?
Perhaps someone with similar needs can give me some advice.
Johannes
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