I suspect what is being asked is something like this: Jean wants to set up an account on their apple. This account does not correspond to their ISP, but to Google. They want to be able to use local mail programs like Mail.app. They want to get new messages that arrive at Google to show up on their local machine, without needing an internet connection at the time (for example, a machine that connects once a night to fetch new stuff / send outgoing email). But using imap for this is resulting in the entire history transferring over and occupying disk space locally.
Is that an accurate description? (And do I sound like someone that has done similar things back in the dialup days when bandwidth was time expensive even if it wasn't dollar expensive? :-) On 2017-04-28, at 8:41 PM, Macs R We <[email protected]> wrote: > I can't understand what you are asking. > > What is a "local account?" All accounts have an ISP, right? So I don't know > what a "local" account is. > > Where are these "10+ years of mails" and which direction are you trying to > avoid transferring them? On your machine, or at your ISP? > > If they are at your ISP, why can't you use webmail to delete or archive them > if you don't want to transfer them to your machine? > > >> On Apr 28, 2017, at 8:02 PM, Jean-Christophe Helary >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I'm using sierra and it looks like the possibility to choose between a POP >> and an IMAP account when creating a local account doesn't exist anymore... >> >> I've set the POP forwarding things in gmail but it doesn't seem to make any >> difference... >> >> Any idea how to do that? >> >> Jean-Christophe >> >> ps: the reason why I don't want to recreate the thing as IMAP is that I >> don't want to download 10+ years of mails on my machine... If there is a way >> to do without that, I can consider IMAP... >> _______________________________________________ >> MacOSX-talk mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk > > _______________________________________________ > MacOSX-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk --- Entertaining minecraft videos http://YouTube.com/keybounce _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
