[access-uk] Re: TIME TO GO IMAP?
- From: Jonathan <digitaltoast@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2011 16:43:27 +0000
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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