Re: [Evolution] How to easily archive imap email

[dave boland <dboland9 fastmail fm>]

On Thu, Dec 3, 2015, at 07:06 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Thu, 2015-12-03 at 17:18 -0500, dave boland wrote:
> > two other question.  My isp says they support pop3.  Would I be smart
> > to use that instead of imap+ and leave the mail on the server (which
> > is what I used to do, and I assume Evolution 3.16.5 can still do)?
>
> Definitely not. POP (including POP3) does not support folders on the
> server side, or indeed many other features of IMAP. The only purpose in
> setting "leave on server" for POP is so you can read your mail from
> multiple clients, and even then it's usually assumed that one of those
> clients will delete the mail from the server after downloading it.
>
> IMHO the only justification for using POP is when the server side
> doesn't support IMAP.
>
> poc

Fair enough.  However, I need a plan that gets the emails on my computer
so they can be archived, and do so as automatically as possible.  My isp
deletes email older than 90 days, and I don't want to have to do
archiving manually all the time.  So what do I do if POP3 is not the
answer?

Dave,
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