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

[Benny Kjær Nielsen]

On 5 Nov 2013, at 17:46, Eric A. Meyer wrote:

> On 4 Nov 2013, at 3:56, mail at assai.com.au wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> I agree with all of this wholeheartedly.  I know how IMAP is meant to 
> work, but the lack of local safeguards in situations like Seebs', or 
> worse still given an unannounced decision by a mail server admin to 
> dump messages past a certain age in order to save disk space (or 
> whatever), is one of the things that worries me about using MailMate.

I'll do what I can to make this more unlikely to happen (implement some 
of the warnings discussed with Seebs), but in most cases this problem is 
not much different than the risk of a local corrupted (or stolen) disk. 
The exception is, of course, if the server admin quietly drops old 
messages and the user does not notice/know this, but I don't think that 
would keep them in business for very long (and that goes for any type of 
cloud service).

-- 
Benny