Re: [Evolution] Setting up IMAP

[Dominic Knight <dominicknight gmx com>]

On Wed, 2017-02-15 at 16:29 -0500, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> Quoting Jonathan Ryshpan <jonrysh pacbell net>:
> > I have just switched my email server from POP (inbound.att.net) to
> > IMAP
> > (imap.mail.att.net), as indicated in my last posting) and need
> > help  
> > setting up
> > IMAP.  I would like the IMAP connection to run roughly like the
> > POP  
> > connection in at least these ways:
> >  * Messages are received from all folders of my account
>
> Standard IMAP behaviour.
>
> >  * Messages are deleted from the server when downloaded
>
> Nope, that is not IMAP.  Not doing that is the point of IMAP.  If
> you  
> want that you are going to need to fetchmail to a maildir hierarchy
> -  
> or something else wizardly.
>
> My advice is let IMAP be IMAP, use it as IMAP, and be happy.

Or indeed yes, maybe not the _intended_ use of IMAP but I do it here,
copying everything into local folders and deleting off the server as it
does so. Just how I prefer it I guess. 

create filters based on mails dropping into your inbox so they go into
a folder or several on your local inbox after arrival.

Cheers, Dom.

> >  * Composed messages are copied to my local "Sent" folder when
> > sent  
> > or to other
> >    local folders as indicated in the sent message filters.
>
> Where to save the sent folder is a preference of the mail account;   
> that can be local or remote - you just pick it.
>
> > Also, more generally, what do the various options shown on the
> >     Edit->Preferences->(Account)->Edit->Receiving Email
> > popup mean?
>
> I do not understand the question.
>
>
>
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