Marten Gallagher, [MG] wrote: >> If you're referring to our little exchange a while back...
> Weellllll.... sort of!! :-)) I looked at all your other exchanges and couldn't see where else you could have considered yourself treated a little harshly. :) > I wasn't being terribly serious and I understood where you were > coming from - I do the same in similar situations.... I just felt a > little miffed because I'd searched and read for three hours using > Google and nowhere were there any answers to my particular queries. Ok. So long as you've looked, I'm happy to fill in the blanks. As with most things, you'll learn a lot about IMAP as you actually use it. > Anyway - no offense taken at all. Good!! > From what I have read - email on te IMAP server stays there unless I > specifically say 'bring it here locally'. Or more commonly ... may I see what is there. Whatever you see is cached. I don't know if you've worked with virtual folders, but the IMAP folders are sort of like those. The similarity is that they display a representation of what's on the server. The difference is that the IMAP folder actually has a cache of what you've viewed. What will help is to browse your IMAP account in explorer. Go to your TB! mail directory and compare a POP3 to an IMAP account. The POP account will have a directory setup that reflects the folders in the POP account. Each folder has a message base. Look at the IMAP account and you'll see no directories. Only a bunch of files which are actually cached data files for each IMAP folder on the server. > Then I have a phycical copy on my machine. You do have a physical copy if you've actually viewed the message or have done a full sync of message bodies. However, it's a cached copy and not a standard message base copy. To get copies in standard bases, you need to copy/move messages from the IMAP server to local TB! folders. Local TB! folders are either common folders, folders within POP accounts, or local Outbox, Inbox or Trash folders for your IMAP account if so configured in your IMAP account setup. > All the refs I've found suggest this has to be done using PP3 still > - which doesn't make sense to me. No. POP3 has nothing to do with IMAP. You don't use it at all when using the IMAP protocol. > A: How do I get an actual copy of the email and, say, attachments on > to my machine... Copy, move or filter the message to a common folder or a folder within a POP account. I've created a POP account for archiving mail. However, I could have depended on common folders. > B: How do I know whether emails I look at using The Bat are actually > on the server or on my machine? Once you're looking at messages using an IMAP folder, those messages are actually on the server and you're simply browsing and caching them pretty much as you do when browsing a website. However, unlike the website, you have control over what you browse. You can delete, copy, move messages as you please. > C: I have many and several filters, auto-replies, groups, and other > esoteric filter actions set up for clients' - is The Bat reliably > processing these with IMAP mail? It would seem that this is so. At least at my end here. However, this sort of thing and the reliability of it depends on which IMAP server you use. I suggest testing and seeing how it goes. I use MDaemon's IMAP server. What makes TB! so good as an IMAP client is that all those features work in the main and more and more of them are being made to work. > D: I really cannot find the answer to this anywhere at all... Well, hopefully, you've found it here. :) > I cannot change email addresses for my 38 accounts, they are connected > with web sites for clients and email newsletter software etc etc. Why would you wish to change those addresses. > So, if I need to set up a new account to run as IMAP, how do I, for > example, change [EMAIL PROTECTED] (currently POP3) to the > same address as an IMAP account? You need to know if the server for that account supports IMAP. My server, MDaemon, supports both IMAP and POP3. Each account may be managed using either of the two protocols. The same applies to my e-mail account at work. I was accessing it using POP3, but recently created an IMAP account in TB! and it's working well with TB!. -- -=[ :Allie: ]=- List Moderator and fellow end-user PGPKeys: http://key.ac-martin.com
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