-=PCTechTalk=- Re: IMAP vs POP
- From: Gman <gman.pctt@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2008 22:13:49 -0400
Don,
That's precisely what it's telling you. Whatever you do to the messages
when offline will later be done to the messages that are sitting on the
server. The prerequisite is that the email server must have support for
IMAP connections and not all of them do. For those that have it, OE works
just fine, but I have no idea how well it's supported by Windows Mail or
whatever that "Live" thing is that they're now pushing on Vista users.
I have a couple of portable apps that will allow you to POP messages to
your hard drive without necessarily deleting them off of the server. It
would allow you to grab a hard copy of anything onto your drive while
leaving messages on the server so they can continue to be accessible in
other ways. The thing is, you'll need to know ahead of time which messages
you wish to preserve and that means accessing them through another method
first, deciding on the ones you might want to copy to your drive and then
running the POP downloader to snag them before doing anything else with them
in the default method. In other words, you'll be reviewing them one way,
grabbing them by another and finally dealing with them (reply, delete,
transfer, move, etc.) using the first way again. It may be more work than
it's worth. I use these types of apps for clients who cannot access their
email for one reason or another. They allow me to download all of the
uncorrupted posts &/or delete any that refuse to budge.
Peace,
Gman
"The only dumb questions are the ones we fail to ask"
----- Original Message -----
From: <dsw32952@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, September 19, 2008 10:44 AM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- IMAP vs POP
> Some of you will remember that I have moced my email store to a portable
> hard drive. At the time it worked great and I have been happy until
> recently. Now it appears to be causing more problems than it solves, so I
> am looking for a new solution.
> IMAP may be the answer. I have access to an email server and local
> software that supports it. However I have email that I sometimes MUST
> download and have access to offline.
>
> I can possibly set up email account(s) for that specific email and
> continue to POP with only minor, almost insignicant inconvenience and then
> have separate accounts for email that I do not need to download.
>
> It would be easier if IMAP had a method that would allow for download when
> needed. I looked at www.imap.org but saw nothing there that suggests that
> is possible. Message forum archives that may answer that question are
> access forbidden (probably because I am not faculty or student at the
> university).
>
> Nevermind. Maybe. I just found this in the OE helpfiles:
>
> "A server-based account saves you time by downloading only your message
> headers so that you can choose which messages you want to later download
> and view in their entirety. When you are working offline, you can read and
> respond to e-mail messages just as you would when working online. The next
> time you work online, your server-based e-mail account will synchronize
> the e-mail on your computer with the server. During the synchronization
> process, the actions you performed in your account are carried out on the
> server."
>
> This sounds like I can do what I want to do, but I'm not sure I am
> reading this correctly.
>
> I set up an IMAP account, log on and download headers. Can I download
> message body and attachments, go offline, use a utility to extract the
> attachments, delete all the messages from the local folder, go online and
> have it sync with the server (delete from the server everything I deleted
> offline)?
>
> Any comments or ideas?
>
> Thanks
>
> Don
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