thank you all
okaaay, me old man will comply and use the /en vogue/ IMAP <sigh>
best regards
で⊃ Meaulnes Legler
Zurich, Switzerland
+41¦0 44 260-1660
On 19.09.23 06:14, Michael Stauber via Blueonyx wrote:
Hi Meaulnes,
I guess all of you guys use IMAP on all of your computers, so you don't have
this problem... I was looking for a solution for fetching my Sent folder
contents automatically from my office desktop computer to the remote Sent
folder on the server.
Like Taco and Chris have already mentioned: This day and age IMAP is really the
best choice if you want to use the same account on multiple devices AND have
all emails (sent and received) accessible everywhere.
I was in the same boat many years ago and was still using POP3 on an important
account. Eventually it really became too much of an hassle when using multiple
devices for checking emails.
Here is what I did: In Thunderbird I disabled the account that was still using POP3 and
excluded it from being checked. I also renamed it to "usern...@server.com
(POP3)" to make it really obvious: That's one old one.
Then I recreated the account in Thunderbird (using the same server, username
and password), but configured it to use IMAP instead.
That way I now had two configurations in the email client for the very same
account: An active one using IMAP, and a disabled one that used to use POP3
before it got disabled and was now excluded from regular email checks.
Now there were a few recent messages (and replies of mine) that I wanted to be
present on the server and accessible via IMAP. So in Thunderbird I selected
those messages and copied them from the disabled POP3 account to the now active
IMAP account. Which then uploaded the messages via IMAP to the server. Then I
set up a sensible folder structure and sorted the messages into the right
folders.
If there were still a message older than that which I needed? I still had the
old POP3 account data in Thunderbird and could fetch 'em from there.
So it's really not too much hassle to switch from POP3 to IMAP in the
email-client. To the contrary: That little discomfort during the switch is
repaid tenfold from there on.
Also, when you do this: Email clients usually also allow you to configure how
long they keep messages on the server before deleting them there, or what to do
with messages after that expiry date. Especially with IMAP (which usually
leaves emails on the server) you should set up some sensible expunging or
archiving.
Depending on the accounts typical usage I leave emails on the server for a few
days or so and then archive them into either an IMAP folder on the server, or a
local folder on my PC.
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