[ale] how do you delete IMAP server messages and not local copies

[lists at serioustechnology.com (Geoffrey Myers)]

Ron Frazier wrote:
> Hello all.  Several people have been encouraging me to use IMAP for 
> email, and I've been investigating it.  I specifically want to download 
> the messages to my local computer and have them available whether I'm 
> connected to the internet or not, as well as be able to back them up.  I 
> want all my computers synchronized when I'm connected to the net.  AND, 
> I want to be able to delete the messages from the server periodically, 
> when they accumulate to too large a number; while still retaining the 
> local copy on my machines.  I cannot seem to find any way to do that 
> based on what I've been reading.  Anybody know if that can be done?  I 
> also read that IMAP have problems synchronizing thousands of messages in 
> a folder, which is routine for me.

What I do is, any message I want to retain, but remove from the server, 
I simply move it to a local-folder in Thunderbird, thereby retaining the 
message (on a single machine) and removing it from the server.

> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> Ron
> 


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