Using IMAP for the list

[Willy Hamra]

placing 2 folders on the server should work, but remember, that these will
appear in your IMAP folder tree, and these emails wont be stored on your
driver unless you select them to be used offline. having your email client
copy the emails will copy those emails to your local folder and leave the
message on the server wherever it was (inbox?).
imagine IMAP as a remote control of the folders on the server. you move your
messages between different folders in your IMAP account, they get moved
between these folders on the server. move them to a local folder, and they
will quite literally be moved to your local folder, that is, removed from
the server, since your local folders are not mapped to any folder on the
server.

2008/6/3 Neil Winchurst <barnaby at drofle.com>:

> lanzen wrote:
> > Neil Winchurst wrote:
> >
> >> I expect it to work like this. All emails arrive at my server and are
> >> placed in the inbox. When they are downloaded to my computer they are
> >> sent to one or other of the two new mailboxes. So they are all together
> >> on my server, they are split up on my hard drive. Does that make a
> >> difference?
> >
> > Well, if the filtering action is "move", they'll be deleted from the
> > server. You want "copy". You could copy to your HD and also to a
> > different folder on the server, say an folder called archive or
> > something meaningful to to you.
> >
> Well, I have checked and, yes, I had the filtering set as move. I have
> now changed it to copy.
>
> I think I have not understood how IMAP works. Can I check please? I
> created two new mail boxes on my HD at home. Then I set the filter to
> place each email in one or the other of those new boxes. This was all
> done on the home HD. I did not do anything on the server.
>
> I expected all emails to be placed in the Inbox on the server and to
> stay there. I expected the filtering to effect my home HD only and that
> all the emails should remain on the server in the Inbox. Is this wrong?
> I find that the emails are correctly placed in the relevant mail box on
> my home computer, but I can not find them on the server. They do not
> appear in the Inbox on the server, or anywhere that I can see. This is
> what is puzzling me.
>
> Should I have set up two new matching mail boxes on the server and then
> filtered them on the server as well?
>
> Thanks for any help
>
> Neil Winchurst
>
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Willy K. Hamra
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Co. Manager of Zeina Computers and Billy Net.
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