[kdepim-users] IMAP mail question

[Anne Wilson]

On Wednesday 01 April 2009 20:53:23 Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> On Wednesday 01 April 2009, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > A user pulls IMAP mail from fastmail.us.  After locating his
> > badly-imported mail (reported elsewhere) he was about to delete his
> > fastmail.us inbox, expecting his mail to come into the top-level
> > inbox.  Fortunately he delayed doing it.  When new mail came in it
> > went into the fastmail.us inbox.
> >
> > Is this was usually happens when your isp offers imap?
>
> I'm not sure I understand your question. Anyway, I'll try to answer:
> If you create an IMAP account then you get an entry (in the folder list)
> with the name of the account on the same level as "Local Folders".
> Below this entry the folders of the IMAP account are shown (similar to
> the folders below "Local Folders"). Does this answer your question?
>
I think so.  His mail will always come into that Inbox, then.  I don't think 
he has had a folder structure on the server.

> > I know he could set up a filter to redirect it, but is that the best
> > way to handle it?
>
> What does he want? Does he want to use the IMAP account in POP3-fashion,
> i.e. download all his mail instead of leaving it on the server? If yes,
> then he should probably use POP3 instead of IMAP (provided his ISP also
> offers POP3). If he still wants to download via IMAP, then he should
> create filters to filter all of his mail into local folders.
>
Unless there are issues that we haven't yet discussed, I don't think he gets 
any real benefit from imap, but that's what he's got, and he doesn't 
particularly want to change that.  Up to now he has manually moved all 
messages that he wants to keep.  He's yet to learn the magic of KDE's filters 
:-)  That lesson is for this weekend :-)

Anne
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