Ant wrote:
What I did was use POP3 as my primary/local e-mail storage since I don't really like keeping my personal e-mails on the servers. I use IMAP once in a while. I move all its remote e-mails to my POP3 account to keep locally by dragging and dropping between accounts' folders in SeaMonkey's e-mail client.
I do something similar. I prefer keeping my primary storage on my local drive, and I have email archives now going back to close to 30 years. I've also found that searching goes faster/easier on POP (or local folders) than it does on an IMAP account.
With my POP accounts, I set the mail retention settings to leave messages on the server for 14 days after download. From there, if I'm using other email settings, whether alternate clients or profiles on the same machine, or other machines, I set up IMAP profiles. Nearly all the time, having the last 14 days of accumulated mail is enough for what I need immediately. If I happen to send any messages from an IMAP connection, I go to the Sent folder, and then move the copy into the Inbox, where the message can then be downloaded in my normal POP profile, for long-term storage.
This method allows me to get the mail access I need from any place I may want access (including occasional use of a web client, as well as the mail client on my cell phone), while keeping everything for long-term storage in my primary POP profile. The key idea is that I consider my POP profile to be the authoritative collection, and accesses anywhere else are merely copies.
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