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<div style="font-family:sans-serif"><div style="white-space:normal"><p dir="auto">I used pop for like 25 years before switching to MM and IMAP. Yes, it took me a while to switch my thinking about handling email but it is not bad. The beauty of MM is its local cache. While the main repository of mails is technically on the remote (or local as it may be) server, MM allows me to view and handle my email offline, just as I did it with POP. The biggest adjustment is not to worry about emptying the IN mailbox but establish a set of smart mailboxes (and tags) to create a workflow similar to what you had before. Takes a bit effort but it is surely possible.</p>
<p dir="auto">Robert</p>
<p dir="auto">On 20 Feb 2018, at 21:08, Ron Britton wrote:</p>
<blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #777; color:#777; margin:0 0 5px; padding-left:5px"><p dir="auto">Max Rydahl Andersen wrote:</p>
<blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #777; color:#999; margin:0 0 5px; padding-left:5px; border-left-color:#999"><p dir="auto">Just mentioning the above as the powers of imap are varied but I think you'll<br>
find it beats any POP3 setup.</p>
</blockquote><p dir="auto">I'm trying to keep an open mind. Just because I've done things one way for 25<br>
years doesn't mean it's best (usually the opposite).<br>
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I tried IMAP a couple of years ago, and I just wasn't happy having to go onto<br>
the server to get copies of emails I needed to look at again. MailMate would<br>
allow me to find it on my hard drive, but then why do I need a copy sitting up<br>
on the server? This is obviously a philosophical question about approach to<br>
email.<br>
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The need to access from more than one machine is a possibility in the future.<br>
Maybe I could try to keep only emails from the last month or year on the<br>
server and within MailMate. Older stuff that I still want I could offload to<br>
my main computer. Elsewhere on this list, people have discussed archiving<br>
emails. DevonThink, EagleFiler, and Foxtrot were mentioned. I could look<br>
into some sort of approach using one of those.<br>
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