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:
In my case, my message store is not kept by Thunderbird, but by a local (same computer) dovecot imap server. I do this even in my laptops. This way I can see the same messages with two or more mail clients (alpine and thunderbird). I can try beterbird, seamonkey... Even outlook!
Yes, but due to some remote IMAP server limitations I have to download messages to the local store. It's the local store I've been worried about.
Sure. That local store can be on imap. Same hard disk and computer as Th.
Could be on imap on the same local computer, but it's not. The remote IMAP servers don't have enough storage capacity, so over the years I've had to make local copies of the older stuff, usually on an annual basis. So the message store in question lives only in ~/.thunderbird. The local host isn't reachable from the Internet, so standing up dovecot would be overkill.
You don't understand.
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? Would the local MUA communicate with the local server, and the local server communicate with the remote one to keep them in sync? -- Robert Webb