---marlyse got it. how about then accessing it via POP but setting the preferences that 2 of the computers NEVER download from server and the computer that should have the backup is basically the master and that one deletes messages from server after 6 months or however long you think you need access to all the mail from all the computers.
the reason I'm suggesting this is two-fold: when I yesterday switched one of my accounts quickly to IMAP to test a possible copy filter out for you, I noticed how terribly slow IMAP is - and we are on a T3 line here, so it's not our connection. It could also have been my IMAP settings, I didn't finetune anything for the quick test, but it seemed somewhat... chunky, compared to POP3 and the other reason I'm suggesting going with POP3 is because I was not able to get filters working with the IMAP account - something which indeed I think curious as to why that would be or what I did to have it all greyed out, but fact is that I was not able to apply filters and so until I hear from somebody else pointing out what I did wrong, I'm assuming you can not apply the move/ copy filter to your IMAP messages and thus POP3 would be the way to go - as long as there is no binding reason as to why stay with IMAP. regards, ---marlyse ------------ former message(s) quotes: ------------- > >I have all my mail sorted out by rules in my Runbox and Fastmail email >providers.. > >I access these mails from three different computers, however I want one >local backup on >my Mac (at home) > >Mail.app does it but it can't handle IMAP that well. I had moved one >folder of 920 emails from Runbox to >Fastmail and my time-stamps are a mess.All these emails have the same >time-stamps although they are a year old. >Time stamps were proper in T-bird but not in mail.app.I tried few of >those mails in PM and they appear properly. >So it is a client fault. > >regards > >Rishi > > >>you know, I thought that too and just tried it out but it did not work - >>but oddly enough FILTERS are all greyed out when it comes to IMAP >>folders and messages in such folders. hmmm.. >> >>out of curiosity - why exactly would one use IMAP if one anyhow wants to >>make local copies and why not just use POP (and e.g. leave messages on >>server for xy days as backup next to local backups) ? >> >>---marlyse >> >>------------ former message(s) quotes: ------------- >> >>>Rishikesh Mulgaonkar wrote: >>> >>>>Now is it possible to create Applescripts so that every mail in my IMAP >>>>account goes to a specific local folder. >>>Why an Apple script? You can simply make it with a PM filter. >>> >>>An IMAP account is concerned with a specific mail account. For this >>>account you can create a filter with the condition: "account" "is" >>>"[name_of_account]" and the action: "move message into folder" >>>"[name_of_folder]" (that folder you have to create first). >>>Whit such a filter you will find *all* messages coming from this IMAP >>>account only in this folder. >>> >>> >> >> >> > > > ---marlyse
