On 10/22/04 12:00 AM, "Scott Haneda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Been trying on and off to move to IMAP for a long time now. I need some > background I think. > > Searching, yes my server supports IMAP server side searches, but does this > mean I have to mouse and control click every time I want to search for a > email? I no longer can do "normal" searches"? Some people use IMAP so that just headers are on the local computer by default. In this case, it is more useful to search on the server. On some servers, the search is also faster on the server. > Assuming the above is correct, when a result set is found, can I then search > tat result set locally without hitting the IMAP server? Again, if the entire message is on the local computer. > How does one manage IMAP? Basically, I am getting a laptop and I want my > email to follow me around. While pop with a delay in the delete from server > will handle the incoming aspects of my email following me from computer to > computer, the sent emails will not. Under pop, a sent email will not make > it back to my home computer if I sent a email from the laptop. With IMAP it > would. However, I really only want a few months of email in IMAP, at which > point I would rather move it to local storage. Does this mean I need to > more or less duplicate my folder structure on my home computer. Then every > now and then I can drag them out of IMAP and into the local storage? With IMAP, you can have your sent items, deleted items and drafts on the server. Letterrip manages these for you. If you wanted an exact mirror of the folder hierarchy on a particular local computer, you could easily accomplish this with Applescript. > If the above is true, does that mean the "Folders on My Computer" list is > going to be 2x as large as it is now? Is there any way to automate this? > Perhaps the home computer has a IMAP account, but it is told to immediately > move all email from IMAP to local storage, but also keep it in IMAP. Then > on the laptop I run just IMAP and no local folders at all? An IMAP account is a peer to "Folders on My Computer". > One final idea, can I perhaps just use POP on both, and somehow, maybe on > the laptop, add some special headers that would tell the sent email to be > sent to me again, and somehow get my home computer to treat that as a "sent" > type of email? I guess I can CC myself on everything, for which I would > want to know a way to automate the CC'ing so I did not have to remember, > however, that would be a incoming email to my home computer, not a "sent" > email, which bugs me to no end :-) > > The only other way I can think to deal with this is to put the MUD folder on > a share on my home network, I know that would work fine on the home network > at 100Mb/sec, but over say a Starbucks internet or friends cable/DSL, I have > no idea how that would work. My MUD folder is about 200MB at any time, I > assume a simple launch of E-rage on a remote location would require E-rage > to download the entire MUD before it would work? > > Suggestions on how to work this appreciated. Once you get used to IMAP you will never want to go back to POP. Just give it a shot. FWIW: There are many IMAP online providers that will also give you web access to your mail when you don't have your own personal computer with you. I use one for all my personal email. Jud -- 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/>
