Re: Any Advice on changing from POP to IMAP ?

On Saturday 13 December 2008, Werner Joss wrote:
> On Saturday 13 December 2008 14:36:57 Stephen Kelly wrote:
> > The reason I haven't switched to imap is I believe you have to
> > duplicate every mail on the server in each place you want to use
> > imap.
>
> no.
> that is only with DIMAP, not plain IMAP, which implies all mails are
> stored on the server and never get copied/duplicated.
> your mail client just looks at them.
>
> > So if I used imap with my gmail account, my entire gmail history
> > would have to be downloaded. Also, if I delete a mail through
> > kmail, it would be deleted on the server too (not archived or
> > anything like that).
>
> that's right :)

And that's the whole point of IMAP: Regardless from where you look at 
your IMAP account (from home, from work, from an internet cafe, with 
your mobile gadget, etc.) you always see the same.

If you want to archive everything then you have to download everything 
from the IMAP account to some archive. FWIW, I use KMail's expiry 
functionality to archive old messages (and to keep my account safely 
below the quota).


Regards,
Ingo

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