Re: Retrieve all messages from AOL

"Compilebunny" <[email protected]> Mon, 4 Apr 2022 12:22:17 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.mail.getmail.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
>> Can you recommend an approach to retrieving the sent mail box (the other
>> folder with thousands of messages)?
>
> You're using POP3.  There is no such thing as "another mailbox" or
> "another
> folder" in POP3.  Your MUA logs into a POP3 server with its credentials,
> and
> there is a single, non-hierarchical namespace (unnamed - "non-namespace"?)
> containing messages.  There is no concept of folders at all.

What I meant to ask is whether this or some other approach might work with
IMAP. I will try the approach that you suggested with IMAP and see if it
works.

- Compilebunny