atk | that's not really an imap problem, that's a poor instructions problem, the correct process is to create a new account and then just copy or move the mail from one to the other | 00:13 |
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atk | complaining that this doesn't work is like complaining that if you connect to a different database, the data is no longer there | 00:13 |
atk | your local IMAP mail is just a cache for this online database | 00:13 |
sixwheeledbeast | You would archive your IMAP locally if there was a concern of lost data at the server end. | 00:14 |
atk | although in this instance, I am pretty sure they could have configured their imap server to act as if the clients had the most recent copy | 00:15 |
Joerg-Neo900 | yeah, there's one account that doesn't offer POP3, only IMAP. I got a filter rule that moves every mail to local folder on sync | 01:06 |
norly | Joerg-Neo900: maybe you could use something like fetchmail to backup your mail? | 01:18 |
norly | i haven't looked into fetchmail, but if it has a backup mode for imap, then you could keep a copy on the server | 01:19 |
sixwheeledbeast | Surely most mail clients have this? | 01:27 |
Joerg-Neo900 | look, I don't WANT a copy on server. I'm pretty happy when all copies on servers are deleted so nobody can steal them | 01:30 |
Joerg-Neo900 | never had any such issues with my local machines | 01:30 |
Joerg-Neo900 | but two of my email account providers got hacked and emails leaked if they were still on servers | 01:31 |
Joerg-Neo900 | IMAP is an insane concept in my book | 01:31 |
norly | okay, in that case, POP3 is probably a good solution | 01:50 |
norly | sorry to hear you had those experiences | 01:50 |
atk | I can see how you wouldn't like imap if you didn't run your own email infrastructure. | 08:41 |
Joerg-Neo900 | funny? or sad? absurd? https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/removing-profanity-source-tree | 11:19 |
Joerg-Neo900 | Linus, don't let us down! :-) | 11:20 |
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