Thanks Eric, but this will be a project that will go over a few days I 
think, John (owner) will probably take days to pare down his current 
email, he still has all sorts of junk that really has zero bearing on 
anything. <smile>.

I'll keep you posted though on how it goes.  I'm hoping that IMAP 
works sort of like a NewsGroup Reader, where you can either pull 
headers only, or the full messages down to the client.  Might have to 
setup a test account on the server and bang on that for a bit before 
taking the boss over.  Yea, that's the ticket, I can do all of that 
remotely from home!



Glenn Meadows
Mayfield Mastering
2825 Erica Place
Nashville, TN 37204
P: 615-383-3708
C: 615-394-7717


On Friday 17/02/2012 at 4:31 pm, Eric Vey  wrote:
> 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.
>
>