On 2/17/2012 4:58 PM,HIDDEN@mayfieldmastering.com wrote:
> and it's only a "view" of what's on the server, with no local copy? 

That is my understanding of it. In theory, the mail should reside 
"permanently" on the server.
Someone that understands imap better should answer these questions.

If you are going to play with this over the weekend, email me privately 
and we can compare notes because I have been putting off going whole hog 
into imap, just testing a little and I was intending to cut the pop cord 
"someday." This weekend is as good as any to try it.

Right now, I have my phone set up for imap and my PC running thunderbird 
pop3 and holding the messages for 7 days.
My phone shows 7 days of messages. My PC has several years.