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I hate IMAP email accounts

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I hate IMAP email accounts. You simply don't 'own' the emails. You might have them listed in your email program but those are only pointers as far as I can see to them sitting on the server elsewhere. I had a mental aberration last night. I made my periodic look at the raw logs for my website to see if there were any hacking attempts or if the bandwidth was 'normal'...remember Apple Mail threw a wobbler some time back and consumed a colossal amount of data in a day....I noticed that my hard drive had 16MB of 50MB available used up. Most of it was in my email inbox and sent folders. I've got those on the Mac, I thought. I'll delete the lot.

I went back to the Mac, opened up the Sent folder on my website and yes there they were ...for a microsecond before the IMAP updated that list and '''poof''' they were gone. All of them. My backups will not be of any use, of course. So I need some form of archiving of IMAP stuff. Any suggestions ?
 
Thanks Richard. I'll give that a try. Just have to remember to do it regularly!

I have to confess that I really, really, really do not understand how IMAP works as I just popped into my Time Machine backup and guess what.....they were all there!! :eusa-clap:
 
I don't have this problem as I don't let my Mac access my mail but thanks for the warning.
I had something slightly similar having cleared our a lot of photos from my Mac and iPhone/Pad I uploaded some to Amazon Photos where it very kindly put them and several hundred others back in again!! [emoji35]

Rod
 
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