On 01/02/2015 at 04:06 PM, The Wanderer wrote: > On 01/02/2015 at 03:01 PM, Peter Easthope wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Does the IMAP protocol allow retrieving a message, body included, >> from a server and then deleting from the server while keeping on >> the client? This might be described as simulating a POP behavour >> in IMAP. > > IMAP allows retrieving a message, and IMAP allows deleting a message, > so this can certainly be done. (As long as the server actually > respects the delete command, rather than archiving on delete or > something like that, but that would be server-specific.) > >> If the protocol allows this, is the capability implemented in most >> clients? > > I don't know of any which do it automatically, even as a toggle-able > option, but I could do it with Thunderbird message filters easily > enough. > > Just set up a message filter on the IMAP-server Inbox folder with a > "Copy Message" action (which copies the message to a subfolder under > Local Folders), followed by a "Delete Message" action (which deletes > the message from the source folder, which is on the IMAP server). Or now that I think of it, just use a "Move Message" action - since to a computer, a move is just a copy plus a delete. I actually do that myself, routinely; the vast majority of messages I receive are via mailing lists like this one, and every single one of them gets filtered into its own folder under Local Folders. I also manually go through the Inbox, about once a year, and move all messages more than a year old into a manual archive folder under Local Folders. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
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