What I like about Apple Mail is that allows for both iMap folders and
"on my Mac" folders. What I do is I automatically copy all incoming mail
into "on my Mac" folders, so I have multiple backups:
(a) on the iMap server
(b) on my Mac
(c) in my Mac's backup system (though of course, this lags.)
What I would like to see in MailMate is the option to have "on my Mac"
mail folders. This provides not only ways of safeguarding mail
(important: this can have legal implications these days), but also of
having search access to historic emails which may not be on the current
iMap server.
David
On 3 Nov 2013, at 17:59, mailmate-l...@seebs.net wrote:
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server, but they are somewhat out of date, and I got a lot of mail in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!
-s
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