[access-uk] Re: TIME TO GO IMAP?

  • From: "Carol Pearson" <carol.pearson29@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2011 17:21:57 -0000

Hi Jonathan,

Think that's OK.  Thanks.

I'll get on and sort it by the end of the year, I think.  Thanks for taking the 
time and trouble.

--
Carol P

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Jonathan 
  To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2011 4:43 PM
  Subject: [access-uk] Re: TIME TO GO IMAP?


  Hi Carol - some quick thoughts which may answer your questions:


  I believe that Virgin Media are using Gmail for their mail - that might make 
things easier as once you've done one, you'll know how to do the other.
  http://my.virginmedia.com/my-apps/email.html 


  In IMAP, folders are synchronised on local machine and remote server. I don't 
believe there are any limits to the amount of IMAP folders you can have.


  There's no time limit on archived emails - I've got gmail from 2004! Just 
stuff that's put into bin or spam gets deleted after 30 days.


  Don't forget you can "push" IMAP mail onto a server, too. If you wanted to 
"push" all your locally stored pop3 mail onto folders on gmail there's nothing 
stopping you doing that.


  If you're going to use both pop3 and imap, make sure that Outlook Express is 
set to NOT delete mails off server after collection.


  There - that should do!



  On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 12:55 PM, Carol Pearson 
<carol.pearson29@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

    Hi all,

    I'm seriously thinking of changing over my accounts from POP3 to IMAP.

    First, let me explain that I have two email addresses that will be 
affected. These are NTL (now Virgin Media) and Googlemail.  I know that 
Googlemail can be run from an IMAP server but haven't yet discovered about 
Virgin Edmia's addresses.  Can anyone andvise, save me hunting through ...

    I also currently use Outlook Express at home and do have quite a large 
collection of folders.

    First, am I correct in thinking that IMAP for one account and POP3 for the 
other may not work well on the same computer, especially if the POP3 has 
folders here?

    How long would I be able to keep folders in IMAP and is there a limit on 
how how many folders I can have?

    There would be some male here which I would really want to keep and I use 
Googlemail only from Outlook Express and it's been some time since I last 
deleted any messages from the Inbox at Google, though of course my POP3 is set 
to delete mail from the sending server each time.  How would I deal with 
tidying the inbox before going IMAP?

    Am I correct in thinking that the archived messages in Google stay there 
for 3 months before they are deleted completely?  I tried to check this but 
haven't found the answer.

    Thanks for any help you can give.

    --
    Carol P

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