Re: Mail mirroring

In article <noemailhere-FD51F3.10370414052008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
 The NewGuy <noemailhere@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> So I'm using POP mail with 10.4.11's Mail.  Today I thought 
> (brainlessly) to try out something new.  I wanted to mirror my POP Inbox

> with my webmail Inbox for a backup.  Seemed like the option "Remove copy

> from server after retrieving a message" would facilitate that.  So I 
> click the "Remove Now" button.  It wiped out my entire webmail inbox!  I

> thought it should have removed only the messages I had already removed. 

> For example, say today I receive 100 emails.  I keep 5.  Once I've 
> trimmed my POP Inbox down to 5, there should be 5 in my webmail Inbox.  
> But no.  Then the idiots that designed the webmail opted for automatic 
> Trash deletion upon logout.  So everything was wiped out.  Brilliant.  
> 
> Is this typical?  My ISP blamed the OS X Mail program but I have my 
> doubts.  

The setting says right on it that it removes messages from the server 
after you've retrieved them-- not after you deleted them.  So, you 
retrieved the messages from the server, and Mail then removed them from 
the server.  Sounds like Mail did exactly what it said it would do, 
after you told it to do so.

> On the same topic, if use IMAP, and move 5 of those 100 incoming 
> messages (mentioned above) to a folder called "Urgent", would that new 
> "Urgent" folder also be automatically created with the same contents on 
> my webmail IMAP?

If you create the message in Mail, probably not.  IMAP can have folders 
but I've never experimented with it.  It would not be a good assumption 
to expect a folder created in Mail to magically appear on your IMAP 
server, though.

-- 
Tom "Tom" Harrington
Independent Mac OS X developer since 2002
http://www.atomicbird.com/