It looks to me like the iPhone just stores the headers for your last 50 emails, so it shouldn't be taking up a lot of space on your iPhone.
Your ISP and your email provider don't have to be the same, for example, my ISP is Time Warner, but I use Gmail for my mail provider. Google let's you copy mail into it's IMAP servers, so you could move from another ISP to Gmail, just by copying your mail over in your email client. I'm not sure what other email providers offer. You could also copy all of your email to your PC by going into the working off line settings. You can specify which folders you want synchronized to your PC. I'm not sure how you'd get that email loaded up into your new IMAP provider though. Note that I just have a Notes database on my PC from when I was using POP and Lotus Notes for my email client. I just keep that around in case I ever need to look up any of that old email. I could move that into Gmail if I wanted to though. On 17/07/12 11:51, Woody Anna Dresner wrote: > Hi, > > I realize that the normal behavior for Imap is to keep all your messages on > the server forever, but what if you want to store them on your computer > instead and don't want your iPHone to have its memory taken up with all your > past email? What if you change your ISP - how can you take your email with > you when you close your account if you use Imap? Is there a command you can > use periodically to make Imap dump everything to your computer? > > Thanks, > Anna > -- Christopher (CJ) chaltain at Gmail -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
