Re: Email management workflow
On Tue, 28 Aug 2012 17:07:14 +0200, Jimmy Thrasibule wrote:
> I have a bunch of email accounts that I connect to using the POP3
> protocol and Thunderbird. This is mainly done to keep the different
> servers clean of emails and also to keep a backup of all my emails on my
> workstation. Of course, all the emails within my workstation are also
> backed up regularly.
>
> Now I'm like the young guys and I get an Android phone. My problem here
> is about sent email. I can configure my Android phone to leave the
> emails on the server and then remove them later from the server using my
> workstation. But as sent emails are saved locally, I will lose the
> emails sent from my phone.
>
> I know about IMAP but one of my concerns is to being able to have access
> without an Internet connection and I also like the fact to clean out all
> my emails from the servers.
>
> Any idea?
I'd go for a mixed of online/offline IMAP solution, that way you'll get
the best of the two worlds: sent messages from the Android (online IMAP)
phone will be kept/stored at the server side and thus could be then
accessed/fetched/downloaded from the workstation (offline IMAP) to be
stored locally.
Greetings,
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Camaleón
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