Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Jolly Roger Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: Verizon Email => AOL Date: 5 Mar 2017 16:34:53 GMT Organization: People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates Lines: 35 Message-ID: References: <51W5y0sPNk52-pn2-KyS7UX35PPMd@localhost> X-Trace: individual.net wq9Lo/NWQLYVplNZV7A7kQti2+g9fkhalwJS/4phXJ88ZaQUg1 Cancel-Lock: sha1:wthDOVj5Nc5LXtVJO3R42AcAzrI= Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Darwin) Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.apps:37758 comp.sys.mac.system:101835 On 2017-03-05, Patty Winter wrote: > > In article , > Lewis wrote: >>In message Patty Winter >> wrote: >>> No, once I move it to a local mailbox, I don't need it available to >>> other devices. I may initially check email with my MacBook, reading >>> and deleting some messages, but once I've decided which messages to >>> keep, I just want to have those messages safely stored on my iMac. >> >>What is concerning about everything you keep saying is that the >>implication is you seem to think that removing the mail from the IMAP >>server makes it "safe". In fact, you are making it LESS safe. > > I have no problem with leaving mail on the server. I just wanted to make > sure that there was a safe copy on my iMac so that if I deleted a message > from my MacBook it wouldn't disappear completely. However, it appears that > as long as I create another mailbox on the server and move important > messages out of the inbox into that, then I can clean up the inbox on > my MacBook without those deleted messages disappearing from the server. Yes, exactly. Since I run my own mail server with macOS Server, I keep all of my messages on the server. I've got 15 or so top-level mailboxes defined on the server, with several of those containing subordinate mailboxes. Once I've read a message, I file it away into one of those mailboxes. Since they are all on the server, I can get to messages on any client, whether it be one of my Macs in the home office, a laptop while I'm away, or my phone or tablet. -- E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my ravenous SPAM filter. I often ignore posts from Google. Use a real news client instead. JR