Re: [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, 22 Jun 2016 20:32:55 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> Because IMAP MUAs only show a list of messages until you decide to open
> one, at which point it's downloaded. POP has to download everything
> even if you don't read it.

Ok, but that already is the problem, I don't want to have a list with
hundred mails, I just want to see a few mails on my mobile device,
downloaded or not downloaded, since the mobile MUA doesn't provide the
features a Linux MUA provides. Does the mobile device's MUA provide
offline IMAP?

> As to archiving old mails, you can do that if you want just by (in
> Evolution) configuring "copy folder for offline operation", as one of
> several alternatives.

And if I do it again and again, do I get each time a new copy or will
it sync, so that I might lose some mails? What is the relation between
the copied folder/folders and the folders on the server?

Just this single work flow already doesn't provide what I need, since I
don't want to see a list with many mails, I only want a list with a few
mails. And assumed the rest for this single work flow should be
solvable, it requires reading manuals, especially for the proprietary
software for the Apple mobile device. I want to make real-time music
with the tablet PC and with POP accounts I'm able to just get the few
mails I want, without much effort. IMAP makes it complicated and seems
not to provide what I want.

It's simply not correct, that as soon as mails from one account should
be available for different machines, IMAP always is the best solution.
POP has got some advantages, for some work flows.

Keep in mind that an Apple MUA for a tablet PC does not provide the
features Claws or Evolution for my Linux PC provide and for real-time
music OTOH there's no Linux based tablet PC available, there's nothing
else, but Apple. So even if there would be IMAP solutions that fit to
my work flow, should be possible with e.g. Evolution, doesn't mean that
they are available for the mobile device, too.

I can sort much more than 10,000 mails easily with a Linux MUA, but I
already can't handle a list (downloaded or not) with around 100 mails
with the Apple MUA, due to missing functionality. Assumed there should
be Evolution available for a Linux tablet PC, then there would be the
other issue, that the Linux tablet PC can't be used for serious music
work.

Regards,
Ralf