[MlMt] Uh-oh. Imap just bit me...

[mailmate-list at seebs.net]

Soooo.

A mail server went kerplooie.

And the next time I connected to the new server... Mailmate deleted all 
the messages which had previously been considered to be associated with 
that account, because they were no longer present on the server.

Er. That is exactly the opposite of what I wanted. Totally. In every 
way.

Is there a way to configure Mailmate to obtain mail from a server, but 
not to ever delete mail based on changes in the server? Also, is there 
any chance that there's a way I can retrieve the several thousand 
messages Mailmate just deleted? I have some limited backups of the 
server, but they are somewhat out of date, and I got a lot of mail in 
the last week or so that I was, frankly, sort of hoping not to have 
disappear forever.

I think I've run into this before, with the notion that IMAP's goal is 
synchronization. But I don't want synchronization; I want to download 
mail and then keep it forever. I absolutely, positively, under NO 
CIRCUMSTANCES WHATSOEVER, want Mailmate to conclude that because a file 
is missing on a server, obviously I don't want it anymore!

-s