Re:Thunderbird Pro August 2025 Update
by PopAlongKid on Friday August 22, 2025 @11:10AM
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I much prefer POP, as I only send and receive emails on my desktop computer and I want to decide when I fetch new emails. Is there any way to make IMAP work more like POP?
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Just disable any automatic fetching. IMAP is not pushing mails to you, but the client regularly pulls.
Re:Thunderbird Pro August 2025 Update
by homebrewer on Friday August 22, 2025 @01:15PM
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fdm, imapsync, lots of similar alternatives. Synchronize email to your machine and then use any MUA, or even several of them, to read it from a local directory (Thunderbird also works AFAIK).
They can also remove email from the remote and keep just the local copy. Pretty much 1:1 with POP. I've been using this setup (with fdm) for probably more than a decade.