On 6/15/04 8:58 PM, Scott Haneda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am considering moving to IMAP, I have 5 pop accounts that I check on, I > have never used IMAP before, and I am wondering what will change.
Depending on how you configure it, nothing /has to/ change. Why do you want IMAP? Do you plan on accessing the accounts from multiple locations? > What I would really like to see is someone putting up a screen shot of > E-rage folder listing with IMAP accounts. I have a screenshot of *one* IMAP account at <http://members.aol.com/adamkb/aol/mailfaq/imap/entourage-folderlist.gif>. > Does this mean that I will have 5 "groups" of "accounts" in my "folders on > my computer" area? Actually they're not part of the On My Computer section, they're below it. For a preview, turn on Online Access for your POP3 accounts. Notice how they all get listed down the left. With IMAP, you simply have more folders for each account. > All 5 of my pop accounts get filtered by rules that put them in folders, > there is no segregation of each account once they hit e-rage, with IMAP, > would there then be segregation? By default, new mail stays on the server instead of being downloaded to your Inbox. > If so, and I don't really like this, can it be changed? You can use Rules to download messages to local folders, essentially mimicing a POP3 account. > For example, I don't want 5 junk email folders just cause I have 5 imap > accounts. You can configure all of your IMAP accounts to use a single Junk folder, although this means downloading all the junk. > How does the storage system work, can I elect to take files from the server > and store them locally? Yes. > If I were IMAP login from another computer that had never checked email in > e-rage before, would I have to wait to download ALL my email again, assuming > it is all on the remote server? Does it only download perhaps the subjects and > other misc header data, and then when I click on the message It would fetch it > all? Right. > How does searching all my email work in a IMAP scenario, since the messages > may or may not all be local? I believe you can only search what you have either saved or cached on the hard drive. > Is there some mandated folder structure, when I login via IMAP to > squirellmail, I see: > �Inbox > ��INBOX.Drafts > ��INBOX.Sent > ��INBOX.Trash > > Are these fixed in stone? Can I rename these as well? In most cases, yes. Entourage lets you configure where to file Sent messages, for example. You could configure Entourage to save them in a local folder, or a server-based folder called "Bugaboo." > Finally, how would I get all my local pop email back up to the IMAP account? > Does the account matter, as in would I not be allowed to put to the IMAP > server where the to: is not the accont the message was originally sent to? Doesn't matter. You can simply drag the messages from local folders onto the server. -- Adam Bailey | Chicago, Illinois [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Finger/Web for PGP & S/MIME [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.lull.org/adam/ -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
