I tried to import a backed up mbox file and it said that was impossible 
since it was an imap account.

On 2/17/2012 5:39 PM,HIDDEN@mayfieldmastering.com wrote:
> 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>.
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> 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!
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> Glenn Meadows
> Mayfield Mastering
> 2825 Erica Place
> Nashville, TN 37204
> P: 615-383-3708
> C: 615-394-7717
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> On Friday 17/02/2012 at 4:31 pm, Eric Vey  wrote:
>> On 2/17/2012 4:58 PM,HIDDEN@mayfieldmastering.com wrote:
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>>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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