Purelymail – cheap, no-nonsense email

Re:Purelymail – cheap, no-nonsense email by TedDoesntTalk on Friday July 02, 2021 @12:23PM (#27713543)

Thanks for the reply. I thought IMAP servers keep the messages on the server, not on the client. Is that incorrect?

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Re:Purelymail – cheap, no-nonsense email by kureikain on Friday July 02, 2021 @03:09PM (#27715524)

The client has download a copy already and wont sync back what it is already download. You can look into tools like imapsync https://github.com/imapsync/imapsync to copy data from two imap account

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Re:Purelymail – cheap, no-nonsense email by generalizations on Friday July 02, 2021 @12:59PM (#27714013)

IMAP synchronizes with the server, but keeps a local copy. Compare to POP, which moves the mail off the server entirely.

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Re:Purelymail – cheap, no-nonsense email by oarsinsync on Friday July 02, 2021 @01:09PM (#27714120)

> IMAP synchronizes with the server, but keeps a local copy.

The local copy is client dependent. Mail.app on your iPhone will not keep a local copy of all your emails if you have a large number of emails spanning a long period of time. Other clients may vary.

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