Re: Verizon Email => AOL

From	Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.apps, comp.sys.mac.system
Subject	Re: Verizon Email => AOL
Date	2017-03-05 00:41 +0000
Organization	Miskatonic U
Message-ID	<slrnobmnph.llb.g.kreme@snow.local> (permalink)
References	(2 earlier) <o9dmv4$m0j$1@dont-email.me> <ei00thF65sqU1@mid.individual.net> <o9epnl$dpr$2@dont-email.me> <ei08odF7q1jU3@mid.individual.net> <040320170941452608%otto@bogus.address.com>

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In message <040320170941452608%otto@bogus.address.com> Otto Pylot <otto@bogus.address.com> wrote:
> In article <ei08odF7q1jU3@mid.individual.net>, Jolly Roger
> <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:

>> On 2017-03-04, Patty Winter <patty1@wintertime.com> wrote:
>> > In article <ei00thF65sqU1@mid.individual.net>,
>> > Jolly Roger  <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
>> >>On 2017-03-04, Patty Winter <patty1@wintertime.com> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> Sigh, so then we're back to moving messages into a different mailbox
>> >>> on the Mac to protect them when the Mac's inbox is updated?
>> >>
>> >>If that's what you want, sure. What I'm trying to figure out is why
>> >>you want to be able to delete stuff from the server without moving it
>> >>to a local mailbox and still have other clients see the message. What
>> >>use case is there for that type of behavior? 
>> >
>> > 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.  I
>> > won't need to read them from the MacBook again. 
>> 
>> Right. Once you move it to a local mailbox, it is removed from the
>> server and from that point exists only in that local mailbox on that
>> particular client, and nowhere else. 
>> 
>> You can, of course, always move messages *back* to server mailboxes if
>> you want (assuming you haven't deleted them from the local mailbox in
>> that particular client, that is).
>> 
>> >>It seems very simple to me: If you want a message to be available in
>> >>all locations (to all clients), simply leave it on the server (either
>> >>in the Inbox or in another server mailbox. If you want a message to be
>> >>available only on a single client, move the message to a *local*
>> >>mailbox that exists only on the single client. It's very straight
>> >>forward compared with POP.  
>> >
>> > And just to be clear, a "Smart Mailbox" on a Mac doesn't qualify as a
>> > "local mailbox," right? It's just a front end to the Inbox, not a
>> > local mailbox?
>> 
>> Right. Think of smart mailboxes as a search filters. It will search
>> messages and show you anything that matches the specified criteria.

> I still use POP mainly because I'm old, clueless, and too lazy to
> change my account with my ISP to IMAP.

> My main device for reading/answering emails is my MacBook Air. So I
> have Mail set to not delete once read from the server and just copy any
> emails I want to keep to a folder under the On My Mac list. The
> downside of the scheme is if I decide to check email on either my phone
> or iPad, then ALL of the emails are still sitting in my In Box so I end
> up with a ton of old and new messages on those two devices that I
> periodically have to delete. Email is not set to push new messages
> automatically. I suppose the way around that is to have Mail set to
> delete from server on my MacBook Air so that the messages don't appear
> on my other devices. If I happen to read a new message on one of those
> devices, and don't have Delete from Server set, then the message should
> still appear on the MacBook Air if I don't manually delete it.

One huge downside to this is every time some device checks your mail, it
must transfer ALL of the mail. So, if your mail takes up 1GB of space,
every. single. time. you. check. mail... yep, 1 GB of data is
transferred.


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