IMAP Email

Post by **Cakedaddy** » Wed Sep 02, 2009 10:58 am

Anyone else use it?

I've recently switched to it from POP3. I like that all of my devices have the same email/folders setup. I have two issues with it though.

1. Network coverage. If I don't have it, I can't read my emails. Is there a way to force it to download the whole email (all of them) and not just the header? So all my email is available all the time on all devices?

2. New message notification. I have the server running the sorting rules. So my email gets sorted by the same set of rules no matter which system I'm using to read my email. Problem is, if a message is moved to a subfolder by the server, I don't have an indicator of new messages on any of my systems. I have to actually click on all the folders that the rules put messages into and check if there are new messages there. And that's a pain.

So, anyone know how to:
1. have full copies on all devices that hit the server?
2. have new message notification on emails that the server sorts to sub folders?

Malcolm · Post by **Malcolm** » Wed Sep 02, 2009 11:06 am

IMAP should give you the option to dl the e-mail fully. Although, that's what POP3 specifically does. IMAP tends to be more webmail-ish.

Post by **TheCatt** » Wed Sep 02, 2009 12:41 pm

I assume it's all up to your client as to what it does. So different clients probably have different download abilities. But the whole point of IMAP is that it's server-based, not client-based.