[MlMt] Does MailMate mirror everything back to the server?

[Robert Brenstein]

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.

Robert

On 20 Feb 2018, at 21:08, Ron Britton wrote:

> Max Rydahl Andersen wrote:
>> Just mentioning the above as the powers of imap are varied but I 
>> think you'll
>> find it beats any POP3 setup.
>
> I'm trying to keep an open mind.  Just because I've done things one 
> way for 25
> years doesn't mean it's best (usually the opposite).
>
> I tried IMAP a couple of years ago, and I just wasn't happy having to 
> go onto
> the server to get copies of emails I needed to look at again.  
> MailMate would
> allow me to find it on my hard drive, but then why do I need a copy 
> sitting up
> on the server?  This is obviously a philosophical question about 
> approach to
> email.
>
> The need to access from more than one machine is a possibility in the 
> future.
> Maybe I could try to keep only emails from the last month or year on 
> the
> server and within MailMate.  Older stuff that I still want I could 
> offload to
> my main computer.  Elsewhere on this list, people have discussed 
> archiving
> emails.  DevonThink, EagleFiler, and Foxtrot were mentioned.  I could 
> look
> into some sort of approach using one of those.
>
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