Most ISPs or email providers use IMAP over POP3 now, it's more reliable and the ability to sync folders is far easier over multiple devices.
Sent from my iPhone > On Apr 22, 2016, at 11:47 AM, Lee Larson <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Apr 22, 2016, at 10:44 AM, Anne Cartwright <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I tend to use Mail as a filing cabinet of correspondence that I want to save >> fore some reason. Probably should try and find out if there is an easy way >> to save and file mail outside of mail. > > This is one of the reasons I use IMAP instead of POP. If my local machine > gets messed up, the remote server’s database is probably still okay. When > there’s a problem, I just delete the local account and create a new one. It > will usually rebuild the indexes from scratch sans errors. > > I also have a Google account I use for long-term storage. I connect to it > with IMAP and drag the messages into it for archiving. For example, every > message sent to this group from the very beginning up through 2015 is there. > > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > Posting address: [email protected] > Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/> > Answers to questions: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup/> _______________________________________________ MacGroup mailing list Posting address: [email protected] Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/> Answers to questions: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup/>
