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 Originally Posted by verwon
I made a post telling you how you can use IMAP and not have all the mail deleted on the server, so you can still have it all waiting for you on your computer email client.
This one?
 Originally Posted by verwon
In the Pre settings for email, you can select where you want any deleted items to go.
I didn't like having it delete items in my actual Gmail account, so what I did was set the deleted items to go to my All Mail folder, rather than to the trash. That way, I could go in online, later, and decided what I wanted to archive and what was actual trash.
This was using it as IMAP, so you CAN change where the default actions send your mail, it doesn't have to go to the trash.
You do that by changing the folder that "trash" looks at? Then what, I have two different folders on the server, but I only know how to create "rules" on the Mac for the inboxes, not for random other folders. (I'm actually in the midst of testing a second incoming folder now, but either it's a total failure, or that mailing list has been completely quiet for the last couple of weeks.)
Maybe, but I'm dubious.
 Originally Posted by COS777
I think Verwon has a good suggestion of changing where the deleted messages are stored. You can subscribe to that folder on you computer email client and decide what to do with those emails from there (archive/delete).
On a side note: is it necessary that you archive email only on your computer? One of the advantages of IMAP is that the server is where messages are stored. I have Thunderbird keep a copy of my messages on my computer for off-line use (which is pretty rare that I need it), but the server is where I keep things primarily. Just another variation...
I've had to move email providers several times in the past few years, either because they did stuff that was problematic (like automtically bounce messages I wanted to get) or because they went out of business. So yes, I want to keep my own copy of my archives.
(The one that went out of business did support an easy path to move archives to another service, which was nice of them, but I don't know that I trust that to always be available.)
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