On Lu, 23 nov 20, 07:24:37, rhkramer@gmail.com wrote: > On Monday, November 23, 2020 06:15:09 AM Sven Hartge wrote: > > Joe <joe@jretrading.com> wrote: > > > That's why we have IMAP, which doesn't use mbox. > > > > The IMAP protocal and the backend storage have no connection. > > Well, they do in a way -- if you use IMAP from your ISP for example, you don't > need local storage on your email device (not any of mbox, maildir, or > whatever). > > (I don't use IMAP (I use POP3), but I assume that if I were using IMAP as > described, I could save emails on my local device, but I'm not clear on that > mechanism / storage method.) It depends on the software used to retrieve the e-mails (via IMAP), e.g. as far as I recall getmail can be configured to use either mbox or Maildir as local storage. Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser
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