On 2022-09-23 06:22, Robert Webb wrote:
On Fri, 23 Sep 2022 02:49:17 +0200 (CEST), "Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@telefonica.net> wrote:
El 2022-09-22 a las 13:08 -0700, Lew Wolfgang escribió:
On 9/22/22 11:32, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2022-09-22 20:09, Lew Wolfgang wrote:
On 9/22/22 10:50, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2022-09-22 17:15, Lew Wolfgang wrote:
I'm telling you to create an imap server inside the same computer where Thunderbird is, and put your email in it, instead of inside thunderbird. It is still the same hard disk, so you don't win disk space, just better handling.
So, can you have both the remote IMAP server that is accessible from hosts anywhere on the Internet, and is the original store for your emails, and also a local IMAP server on your computer, accessible only from it or maybe the local network, which gets a copy of all messages and folders on the remote server (is a mirror of it), but which also has local-only archived messages?
Of course you can.
Would the local MUA communicate with the local server,
Yes.
and the local server communicate with the remote one to keep them in sync?
No. The local MUA downloads emails from the remote server and uploads them to the local server. Not directly: you put the archive folders wherever you want: local files, or local imap server. The local IMAP server is just another IMAP server, only that you control it. You can use any combination. For example, download from remote imap server using fetchmail, procmail, spamassassing, postfix, etc, and put the result into your local imap server, and then point TH to it. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.3 x86_64 at Telcontar)