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 if I leave the messages on the server, I would like to have a COPY of the messages on my PC so that I can, for example, import them into Mailbag Assistant for searching.
Also, I have a problem in that I keep running out of space. Since it's rare that I would need to search for a year-old message from another location, 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.
Also, the bulk of my messages are in mailing lists, which aren't as important to maintain on the server.
MailSnare (which I use for list traffic) doesn't have the facility for backing up your mail from the server but OTOH FastMail, that I use for my main mail and where I have a 2Gb allowance, allows you to zip your messages and download them to to your local machine on a folder by folder basis. It works well for me and I usually do this each month.
That's good, but in what format are the messages saved? If you unzip them, how do you read them?
Thanks for the reply.
-- Keith
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