Dave 

In Evolution as you are setup now you have 2 accounts "On My Computer" and 
whatever you named the Account with your ISP. Under the On My Computer inbox 
you can create a hierarchy of folders to contain your archives. Then create a 
filter rule that looks at your IMAP inbox (or other folders as you wish) and 
copies to the folders in the On My Computer. Every time you fetch mail all new 
messages should then be copied locally.  




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From: evolution-list [mailto:evolution-list-boun...@gnome.org] On Behalf Of 
dave boland
Sent: Thursday, December 03, 2015 4:25 PM
To: Patrick O'Callaghan <p...@usb.ve>; evolution-list@gnome.org
Subject: Re: [Evolution] How to easily archive imap email



On Thu, Dec 3, 2015, at 07:06 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Thu, 2015-12-03 at 17:18 -0500, dave boland wrote:
> > two other question.  My isp says they support pop3.  Would I be smart
> > to use that instead of imap+ and leave the mail on the server (which
> > is what I used to do, and I assume Evolution 3.16.5 can still do)?
> 
> Definitely not. POP (including POP3) does not support folders on the
> server side, or indeed many other features of IMAP. The only purpose in
> setting "leave on server" for POP is so you can read your mail from
> multiple clients, and even then it's usually assumed that one of those
> clients will delete the mail from the server after downloading it.
> 
> IMHO the only justification for using POP is when the server side
> doesn't support IMAP.
> 
> poc

Fair enough.  However, I need a plan that gets the emails on my computer
so they can be archived, and do so as automatically as possible.  My isp
deletes email older than 90 days, and I don't want to have to do
archiving manually all the time.  So what do I do if POP3 is not the
answer?

Dave,
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