Soooo. A mail server went kerplooie.
And the next time I connected to the new server... Mailmate deleted all the messages which had previously been considered to be associated with that account, because they were no longer present on the server.
Er. That is exactly the opposite of what I wanted. Totally. In every way.
Is there a way to configure Mailmate to obtain mail from a server, but not to ever delete mail based on changes in the server? Also, is there any chance that there's a way I can retrieve the several thousand messages Mailmate just deleted? I have some limited backups of the server, but they are somewhat out of date, and I got a lot of mail in the last week or so that I was, frankly, sort of hoping not to have disappear forever.
I think I've run into this before, with the notion that IMAP's goal is synchronization. But I don't want synchronization; I want to download mail and then keep it forever. I absolutely, positively, under NO CIRCUMSTANCES WHATSOEVER, want Mailmate to conclude that because a file is missing on a server, obviously I don't want it anymore!
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