On Feb 22, 2009, at 1:59 PM, Al wrote: >> This means that if you delete an email from any computer >> looking at your IMAP inbox, the next time one of the other computers >> connects it will be gone AND the local cached copy will also be >> deleted. > > Does this include deleting copies that I might drag into my own folder > under "On My Mac"?
No. This only applies to mailboxes that live on the server, which get synchronzed to your mac. If you make a copy to a local folder that's there forever, or until your hard drive dies. >> With an IMAP account you're never really away from all your mail, >> unless you cannot get to the internet. > > In practice, for consumer level accounts, what is the longevity of > IMAP server contents, months? years? Technically speaking, so long as the server is maintained, backed up and run properly, forever. My pharmacy mail account 'inbox' (and other server folders) dates from 1994. Of course that was four mail servers and five client systems ago... > On termination of active account > by either party? GB size limits? That depends on the contract you have with the provider. Most mail providers will delete your email when you leave their service, and it will certainly be gone if they go out of business. For example we let our students keep their mail addresses for at least a year after they leave, to give them time to get transitioned to a new address somewhere. On the other hand, the university's mail system (we run our own mail server) chops you 30 days after graduation...poof. Most also have quotas, although with the advent of Google's 2GB mail quota, that's been less of an issue. We've made the decision to not apply quotas on our system, simply because that pushes institutional data out to the desktops where it's least protected as far as backups and such go. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to Low End Mac's iMac List, a group for those using G3, G4, G5, and Intel Core iMacs as well as Apple eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to imaclist-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
