On Nov 20, 2008, at 6:32 PM, Harry Jacobson-Beyer wrote:
As I understand it, with an imap account all email remains on the serverin folders the user sets up. If the rules one sets for incoming email (for instance, I have a rule that places all the mail from thislistserve into a folder I have named macuser group) resides within one'semail program, how does it get into the folders on the server?
IMAP has several options for mail storage. In Apple's Mail you look under
Mail->Preferences->Accounts->(your account)->Advancedthere's a pop-up allowing you to store messages on the server or both on the server and the local machine. Other mail programs have even more options and will let you choose how mail is stored on a folder-by- folder basis. You can also set up local folders on a single machine and store your mail locally only, just like a good old-fashioned POP program.
You can set up rules to copy messages from your Inbox into any folder the program can see--even folders in other accounts on other machines.
And does having email set up as imap rather than pop affect the mail when one checks mail from a web browser?
It shouldn't. Most Web mail programs are actually just PHP-based IMAP clients talking to the IMAP server.
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