[Evolution] Replacing POP by IMAP - Was: [solved] Is there a workaround for deleting messages after 1 day from the server?

[Ralf Mardorf <silver bullet zoho com>]

On Wed, 2016-06-22 at 16:59 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Wed, 2016-06-22 at 15:13 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> > On Wed, 22 Jun 2016 14:45:23 +0200, Milan Crha wrote:
> > >  
> > > like "delete after half day"?
> > Yes, even better would be ¼ days.
> >  
> > >  
> > > By the way, why do you keep the messages there for one day? Do you
> > > download them on a different machine too?
> > Yesno, e.g. sometimes I want to retrive a few mails on a mobile
> > device, after the mails already were received by Evolution, but just
> > the latest mails, not the mails of a whole day, IOW just the mails
> > of the last hours. Downloading too many mails or forwarding mails is
> > not that convenient as simply keeping mails for a few hours on the
> > server.
>  
> This is the kind of thing IMAP deals with as a matter of course, but I
> think we've been over that before.

I'm curious, assumed this should be the only use case I wish to get and
it would be ok to keep all mails on the ISP's server. It isn't, but
assumed it would be.

How does IMAP help to retrieve all mails with Evolution and to retrieve
just the latest mails with a mobile device, with archiving all mails by
Evolution. AFAIK it would either require to delete old mails with
Evolution, but then I couldn't archive them, or to retrieve all mails
with the mobile device, too.

Regards,
Ralf