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

[Jeff Horn]

Perhaps off-topic, but is the storage model documented anywhere in detail?

On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 7:07 PM, Seebs <mailmate-list at seebs.net> wrote:
> On 8 Nov 2013, at 17:45, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:
>
>> I should also warn that moving messages from an online account to an
>> offline account does not work well. Internally, MailMate never deletes a
>> message from its source mailbox before it has been uploaded to the
>> destination mailbox (when it's different accounts). There is actually no
>> easy way to see this in MailMate (usually it's an intermediate state until
>> synchronization), but it's possible to find these messages by using some
>> internal virtual headers. I'll give this some thought.
>
>
> I keep coming back to the theory that maybe MailMate should have an option
> for "offline accounts" which basically consists of running a virtual IMAP
> server on a non-standard port and keeping a separate copy of that account's
> messages. The appeal here is that it gives you two copies of that mail; the
> anti-appeal is that it gives you two copies of that mail. But if you care
> about reliable backups more than space, well.
>
> -s
>
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