Re: [Evolution] How to easily archive imap email

[dave boland <dboland9 fastmail fm>]

Very cool.  I'll look into this tomorrow.

Dave,

On Thu, Dec 3, 2015, at 07:40 PM, Jerry Whitteridge wrote:
> Dave 
>
> In Evolution as you are setup now you have 2 accounts "On My Computer"
> and whatever you named the Account with your ISP. Under the On My
> Computer inbox you can create a hierarchy of folders to contain your
> archives. Then create a filter rule that looks at your IMAP inbox (or
> other folders as you wish) and copies to the folders in the On My
> Computer. Every time you fetch mail all new messages should then be
> copied locally.  
>
>
>
>
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> To: Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>; evolution-list gnome org
> Subject: Re: [Evolution] How to easily archive imap email
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> 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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