Using IMAP for the list

[Neil Winchurst]

Willy Hamra wrote:
> 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.
> 
>

Thanks for all that. I have been using Google to find out more about 
IMAP. Now that I have followed advice and changed the filters from Move 
to Copy I do indeed see the filtered emails in the Inbox, as well as the 
copied to box. so I now get them twice.

What I still do not understand is this. Working on my local computer I 
have created two new mail boxes (folders) ready for the filtered emails, 
which I see when I am using Thunderbird. I see the contents too.

But, when I go to the server (on my personal web site) I do not see 
these new folders, so I can't look at the contents when using web-mail. 
Since I have created them, why can't I see them both on my local 
computer and on the server?

Neil Winchurst