On 12/4/2013 8:38 PM, MCBastos wrote:
Interviewed by CNN on 04/12/2013 21:15, hawker told the world:
Can I IMAP on my Phone (HTC Android) and POP on my Mozilla Mail client
without a mess?
In theory... yes. Lots of servers allow it. But you should check the
documentation on your particular server software to see if there's any
known bug.
* Will the email account be able to handle this without corruption?
Also, in theory, yes. If your server does not have significant bugs.
* If I delete it on my phone (IMAP) will it be deleted and not
downloaded to my PC-Mozilla?
It should do so, yes. It's also possible (depending on how your server
handles it) that messages that you move to an IMAP folder (other than
the inbox) won't be delivered to your POP account.
* If I read it on IMAP will it be marked read when POP downloaded or not
or would It also have to be IMAP downloaded to see this.
POP has no concept of "read" messages. So no, even if you have already
read the message via IMAP, it would be downloaded again as "unread" via
POP. If you want to preserve read status and other flags, you have to
use IMAP in both machines.
* Can Thunderbird or Seamonkey's filters, when IMAP downloaded, pull the
e-mail from the IMAP account and move it to an offline account so it
doesn't use up space on the server? Can I do this for messages over a
certain age only?
Certainly so for the first one -- you can use a filter to move a message
anywhere, including local folders.
As to the second... I haven't tried it, but I don't think so. The main
reason being that filters usually only apply automatically to *new*
messages.
An alternative that you might wish to consider is to use the "Archive
messages" feature to move old messages from IMAP to your local folders.
Run this about once a month, set to archive messages older than three
months, and it probably would be enough to keep your IMAP from growing
too much.
Thank you very much MCBastos. This is EXACTLY the clear concise answers
I was looking for.
I use MAPI/IMAP at work because for that usage it works best but still
use POP for personal because, up to recently it has also been the best
choice. My life is changing to be more on the go, less time at home on
y personal computer but I still want local, filtered and sorted archives
of everything. I have to much personal E-mail to keep it all on the
server. I'm thinking this dual, IMAP at work, POP at home may be the
solution, or perhaps IMAP at both and the filters move to local folders.
I'm still trying to work this out.
It would be nice if Android had some sort of SPAM filtering so that
after I kill the SPAM on my phone I wouldn't have to deal with it again
on the personal computer.
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