Chris Williams-17 wrote: > > I don't disagree that it can be convenient to have those messages > retrievable from a local store in an emergency, but trying to treat a > cached copy of your IMAP account as a backup just isn't very safe. As > you've pointed out, backing up those messages, while tedious, is the > safest method. >
After some further thinking, I agree with you. The "standard" local copy is just a cache and as such must be treated. Now the problem is setting up a configuration to locally save remote folder which doesn't involve cached messages. My first attempt was to define an inbound filter copying the received messages to a local folder. Unfortunately I found out that the inbound filters are only applied to the INBOX folder itself and not to its subfolders (such as Sent or other user defined folders). The result is that nor Sent nor other INBOX subfolders are copied to local folders. Defining a second, outbound, filter mitigates the situation, but it is still far from optimal: 1) If you send a message from one client it doesn't get saved on the others 2) If you move (for a mailing list, for example) a message from one client it doesn't get saved on the others 3) if you send or move a message from a webmail client, the message is not saved at all Issues 1 and 2 are annoying, but still acceptable, the latter is not. Once again a simple solution would be having a single inbound filter applied to ALL messages received from the server, regardless of the folder they belong to. I've not been able to define such a filter, do you think is possible? Marcello -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/IMAP-Server-disaster-tp19300789p19335783.html Sent from the Gnome Evolution - General mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
