Richard Owlett wrote:
There are a couple of ways to accomplish what you want.
* Use IMAP. :)
I chose POP long ago for various reasons.
I also have a strong preference for POP, but in this particular instance
there may be good reason to use a combination of both POP and IMAP.
I use several different mail clients, including alternate profiles in
Seamonkey and Thunderbird on my primary working machine, as well as
clients on alternate working machines -- plus webmail and my smart phone.
In my primary profile in Seamonkey, I use POP, and that's where I do all
my long-term archiving of messages. However, I have POP configs set to
leave messages on the server for 15 days after download (rather than
immediate deletion). Then, when I'm working from alternate profiles or
clients, I have the most recent 2 weeks of accumulated mail available to
me. In the alternate profiles and clients, I make one additional tweak,
setting the Inbox to be the repository of sent messages, rather than the
Sent folder. That way, when I next connect with my regular POP client,
all my sent messages are downloaded to my Inbox, where I can then file
them in my regular mail stores.
One variant of Sent handling is to simply Bcc: myself when I'm sending.
That one also is adequate for making sure I have copies of the stuff I
send, where I can eventually file.
In my mind, I assume that everything that I have in my POP profile is
the formal, official and permanent copy of any individual message.
However, having copies of stuff on the server gives me the ability to
interact with the most recent stuff in whatever setup I want, without
disrupting permanent storage.
As others have noted, it's not that hard to copy a single folder from
one profile to another (whether on the same computer or to another
computer), but it takes more work in finding the right folder (whether
working around the issue of the Windows AppData folder being hidden by
default, or knowing how to use the %APPDATA% environment variable), and
then you'll have more work to do with synchronization of your messages
when you return the folder to the original profile. Even if you have a
strong preference for POP, letting IMAP work for you makes all that go a
bunch faster and easier.
Smith
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