IMAP E-mail Account

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IMAP E-mail Account

I have an IMAP e-mail account. When I delete an e-mail from the host's webmail program, it removes the e-mail from my Apple Mail program file as well. Is there any way to ensure that this does not happen? In other words, to use Apple Mail as an archive for all of my e-mails, while just maintaining the most recent or important on the IMAP server. Or is this not possible?

Thanks for your time.

MacBook, Mac OS X (10.4.10)

Posted on Oct 8, 2007 11:39 PM

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m.bode

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Oct 8, 2007 11:49 PM in response to BKolakow

IMAP is completely serverside. This means, that your Mail.app just displays the content on the server. So, if you delete a mail with webmail, it gets deleted on the server causing your Mail.app to reflect this action.

If you would like to seperate webmail and local mail consider using POP3 instead of IMAP.

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BKolakow Author

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Oct 9, 2007 6:07 PM in response to m.bode

is there any easy way to make copies of all of the messages to have as backups? i need to make room on the server but i want to keep all of the e-mails.

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Oct 9, 2007 7:18 PM in response to BKolakow

You can move the mails to a folder on your Mac from within Mail.app itself. Create a new folder, destination "On my Mac," and then create subfolders in it and move messages there that way.

You have to do this from the Mail application -- you can't move messages from webmail to a local mail folder.

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