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

[mail at assai.com.au]

What I like about Apple Mail is that allows for both iMap folders and 
"on my Mac" folders. What I do is I automatically copy all incoming mail 
into "on my Mac" folders, so I have multiple backups:

(a) on the iMap server
(b) on my Mac
(c) in my Mac's backup system (though of course, this lags.)

What I would like to see in MailMate is the option to have "on my Mac" 
mail folders. This provides not only ways of safeguarding mail 
(important: this can have legal implications these days), but also of 
having search access to historic emails which may not be on the current 
iMap server.

David

On 3 Nov 2013, at 17:59, mailmate-list at seebs.net wrote:

> 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 server, but they are somewhat out of date, and I got a lot of mail in 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
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