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). I imagine that various other mail clients also provide sufficiently capable message-filtering or other scripting functionality. No direct support for this by IMAP itself should be necessary. -- 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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