Re: Email management workflow

[Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net>]

Camaleón wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Aug 2012 17:07:14 +0200, Jimmy Thrasibule wrote:
>
> > 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.
> 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.

Just to add to that:
- most IMAP clients offer an option to download and save copies of 
messages for offline access (while also leaving a message on the sever)
- to clean out emails from the server is easy: either delete the mails 
entirely, or move them to a local folder (of course, now that mail is 
only one machine)

Miles Fidelman


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