[LUGSB] Re: Email management

[Jonathan Brandvein]

> You have to subscribe to folders in imap else they wont appear. In
> thunderbird/iceweasel right click onto the account name (
> blah at ic.sunysb.edu) and select subscribe then you can select which folders
> you subscribe to.


Ah, I thought I had checked that option, but I'll take another look.

Do not use POP3, it sucks and if you use all 500 methods to access your mail
> at once something is bound to screw up. You mentioned that you lost all your
> email in your inbox while using POP3. This is because by default POP3
> clients are usually configured to not retain email on the server and just
> download it all and store it locally. You can usually configure POP3 to
> retain email on the server. But don't bother just use IMAP and skip POP3.


That'll only work if I can expand my mail quota. But even if I can get the
admins to extend it, it'd go to what, maybe 100MB? Then I'd be in the same
situation if someone emails me a couple of large files. I think I'd be in a
better situation if I stopped using sparky as a permanent storage medium.


I knew that POP typically deletes things off the server. I made the mistake
of assuming that since I didn't see any option to uncheck this behavior, and
because I still saw the mail via the web interface immediately after
downloading it, I was safe. I deleted the local account on my client before
I realized that the mail was removed from the server, but later found the
directory where it was stored had not been erased, so I still have it all
backed up in some arcane format should I need to refer to it. Might as well
do the same to the rest of my mail, switch to POP, and retreat back into the
90s...
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