Mail.app and IMAP
Anyway, I use Mail.app on my MacBook and although I love the fact that my iPhone knows what messages I've read on the MacBook and vice versa, I am having trouble coming to terms with the IMAP paradigm because I never delete email that isn't spam. Ever. And I'm not going to start. I work in a business where I need to often quickly reference email from years ago and being able to do so is critical. I like to keep all of my email in my inbox and use the Spotlight search from Mail.app to find anything I need very quickly.
Am I right that I won't be able to work this way with IMAP because there is no way to keep a message in my local inbox without a corresponding copy being kept on the server? That doesn't work when you have GBs of email that exceed your server quota. Or is there a way with Mail.app and IMAP to keep a month of email on the inbox folder on the server but keep all of my email in the local inbox folder? I hope there is or I'll have to switch back to POP which lets me do this but doesn't update the read flag on multiple devices.
MacBook (13-inch, Aluminum, Late 2008) (2.0 Ghz), Mac OS X (10.5.4), iPhone 3G (White 16GB) / AppleTV (40GB)