On Sun, 05 Aug 2012 03:49:31 +1200, Donn Cave <donn@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I use my own IMAP client and am frankly afraid to start up the mail daemon, but just from reading the README - you can trash your IMAP folder by doing something to your disk files? <hair-raising emoticon>
did that actually happen do someone or is it just another myth? never seen any bug report nor anybody ever complaint to me that this kind of stuff happened.
Its actually pretty hard do delete anything in the IMAP folder because EXPUNGED is never called. Only on servers where EXPUNGED is called automatically (e.g. gmail) mails can be deleted. I'm using gmail quite a lot with multiple accounts in parallel and I never noticed that I lost a mail. Furthermore, only if you select "delete mails remotely when deleted locally" mails are marked as deleted on the server. If the mail server is not running and you delete your entire mail folder nothing will happens to your remote mails. When restarting the server the mails are downloaded again!
The point of IMAP is actually to stay in sync with the server while accessing the server from multiple machines. If you don't want a bidirectional sync use the POP3 protocol!?
Cheers,
Clemens
