Re: A Question About IMAP Use

2004-11-04 Thread Keith Russell
Clive Taylor wrote: Do you copy your messages to local folders? If so, how? I don't copy them all - after all, it's one of the advantages of IMAP that you can access all your mail all the time. Of course. That's the very reason I switched to IMAP. I guess I didn't make myself clear, though. Even

Re: A Question About IMAP Use

2004-11-04 Thread Matt Thoene
On Thursday, November 4, 2004 @ 7:07:56 AM [-0700], Kevin Amazon wrote: Clive is indeed correct. The whole point of IMAP is the keep the messages in a common message store so that users can access their e-mail anytime, anyplace and from any device. You wouldn't ever want to move messages to

Re: A Question About IMAP Use

2004-11-04 Thread Clive Taylor
I'm considering moving older messages onto my PC and just keeping more recent ones on the server. I'd prefer to keep copies of everything on the server, but just get too much email. You might want to look at ImapSize, a brilliant little free programme that enables you to strip attachments from

Re: A Question About IMAP Use

2004-11-04 Thread Allie Martin
On Wednesday, November 03, 2004 at 11:09:52 PM [GMT -0500], Keith Russell wrote: It seems that I am the exception who leaves most of my messages on the server. I have been intended, however, to download my messages to my PC to make it easier to search them, but haven't do so because I've been

Re: A Question About IMAP Use

2004-11-04 Thread Kevin Amazon
Hi Matt Thoene - On Thu, 4 Nov 2004, at 09:20:48 [GMT -0800] (which was 9:20 AM where I live) you wrote: On Thursday, November 4, 2004 @ 7:07:56 AM [-0700], Kevin Amazon wrote: Actually, I treat IMAP a little differently. I agree with the above

Re: A Question About IMAP Use

2004-11-03 Thread Clive Taylor
Do you copy your messages to local folders? If so, how? I don't copy them all - after all, it's one of the advantages of IMAP that you can access all your mail all the time. MailSnare (which I use for list traffic) doesn't have the facility for backing up your mail from the server but OTOH