monsell, On 28-01-2008 08:57, you wrote in <mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Actually, since this is not my personal email but it is our company > email, I want all messages to be downloaded, just like the POP > interface and what i do is store the the IN messages in a different > folder called X and the SENT messages are stored in another folder > called Y. I store messages upto 5 months old.
Well, this should pose no problem. You can do this with filters, server-side or local. >>The beauty of IMAP is that if you need your mail from another computer >>or via webmail, all your mail (also old mail) is there, in the folders >>you have created for it. > This is very important especially during after office hours or during > a week end. I check mail leaving them on the server, during this > period and once in office, down load them all and clear the server due > to restricted space allocation on the server. Well, you can have folders on the server in which you can store you mail. When you have fully synchronized them (so the full message is local), you can move them to a local folder freeing up space on the server. > Let me get this straight, once the IMAP is configured and your server > comes online, the IN box is filled with messages as appearing on your > server, but the IN box does not have the messages downloaded? It depends on your synchronization settings. Please review them: they should be fairly self explanatory. > Is it a copy of the messages that appears in your IN box? No it _is_ the messages on the server. Delete one - and it's gone on the server (after you "purge"). > Then, how do i > activate the filters for this IN box if the messages are itself not > physically downloaded? You can have server-side filtering and local filtering. If you retrieve message structures with message headers you can filter on some thing but in order to filter on contents in the text of the mail you need to synchronize Headers and text. This way you can filter as with POP3. > do i have to move the messages from IN box to X > box and then run the filters from here? You can have filters moving messages from the inbox to any folder (local or server-side). > do you mean that the folders in the server should be created or the > desktop client that i use? To get the full use of IMAP you should create folders on the server. Again, you _could_ do a full sync. and just move the messages to a local folder, but then you're not really working with IMAP as it is intended. > in our server it got only IN,OUT,SENT and TRASH but in my desktop > client (TB), i got a lot of folders, sub-folders, filters and > sub-filters since i use POP interface. You can have folders on IMAP servers, too. Maybe not sub-folders - I think this depends on the server. > Sorry, but the IMAP is still a bit complicated for me, but would > really want to set it up to run smoothly. I think you should google a bit for IMAP in order to understand what that protocol entails. I know it's a little difficult since it's different from POP but to me it's really much better than POP. > i use TB v.3.0.1.33. May be this is an old version but would like to > stick with it since i dont want any problems trying to install newer > versions and lose all what i got, incase of a problem. Well, TB IMAP is still not perfect but is better in the later versions. -- <greeting> Best regards </greeting> <author> Peter Fjelsten </author> <thebat version> 3.99.24 Pro </thebat version><extras> MyGate, AVG </extras> <env.> 2 POP3, 14 IMAP (Courier) & 1 IMAP (Exchange 6.5), 200K+ msgs. </env.> <os> Windows XP 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 2 </os> ________________________________________________ Current version is 3.99.27.2 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
