"The Great Debate" - POP vs IMAP (fork of Mail Problems)

[Roland Torres]

On Oct 5, 2006, at 12:31 PM, Scot Hacker wrote:

> On Oct 5, 2006, at 11:39 AM, David Zhou wrote:
>> This is more of a IMAP client problem than anything with the  
>> protocol.  It'd be very simple for an email client to have an  
>> "archive all email of this account" command, and simply suck  
>> everything from the IMAP account into an archive.
>
> That feature would solve so much. It  amazes me that Mail.app  
> doesn't already have  this built  in.

That feature would indeed be a lifesaver. We switched all our users  
from POP to IMAP, but the IMAP server (OSXS) went 'belly up' after a  
few months and lost all the messages (meaning everyone lost all of  
their messages). Now we have everyone set up, still with IMAP, but  
they have one or more Mail.app rules that copy their messages to  
local mailboxes, thus archiving them to each user's machine. Maybe  
there's a better way, but in this way, even if the server goes out  
again, at least users have local access to their old messages, and  
not want to slit my throat.

Roland