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Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
May 14, 2013 at 02:37 PM
Ken wrote:
>Now, I need to figure out if
>it can honor the folders that I created on the web mail account, and if
>I should download in IMAP or POP3.
For a one-off job my suggestion would be POP3. If you choose IMAP, you should be careful in the setup so that nothing gets deleted locally when the online account is closed down. That said, I have had this problem with a normal mail client; with an archiving program there is probably no such issue.
>I keep hearing of people having
>problems with past messages when using POP3. They complain that the
>messages do not download, and that the server then deletes them before
>they can be accessed again.
This depends on the online account features. In Gmail, you can specify whether you want POP to be available even for messages already downloaded, as well as to keep the Gmail copies of messages anyway. I have found this quite convenient for maintaining offline copies of unused accounts. I have not tried Yahoo, Hotmail or others though, so their options may be more limited.
>I am not sure of the downside of using IMAP
>if I plan on closing out the web account, and I do not plan on these
>messages being available anywhere else but my home PC.
As long as you can ‘break’ the sync with the server while keeping the local messages (which an archiving program should allow; see above) you could then just log in to the online account and delete everything.
My best wishes for recovery as well.
Posted by MadaboutDana
May 14, 2013 at 04:33 PM
If you use IMAP, MailStore will precisely duplicate your IMAP folder setup on the server. We only use IMAP accounts, and all the folders are precisely mapped on the MailStore system. So what you’ve got on your MailStore system (locally, on your hard drive) is precisely the same as what you see remotely, via your mail client, on your ISP’s server.
MailStore then indexes all e-mails (as it’s downloading them) so you can perform either simple searches (straight single-term searches), or “advanced searches” using e.g. Boolean syntax, time/user/location parameters and so on.
My own experience of POP3 is that it’s less wieldy and flexible than IMAP - if you want to make quite sure you grab everything that’s on your ISP’s server, use IMAP. And don’t worry about MailStore losing stuff - it doesn’t synchronise (it’s not a mail client), it backs up. So if you delete your entire mail account on the remote server, provided you’ve backed it up in MailStore, it’ll still all be there sitting on your hard drive, nicely indexed and ready for searching! Please note that (last time I looked), MailStore Home backups have to be performed manually. But MailStore products are developed steadily, so that may have changed. The MailStore Server solution (costing ca. £250) archives automatically at set intervals.
MailStore - even the free Home version - is designed to meet corporate archiving requirements, which means ALL e-mail must be archived in a read-only form (although actually, MailStore is more flexible than that). So once MailStore has grabbed it, it’s safe. You can even restore your mail accounts to another server, if you really want to!
I hope that’s reassuring!
Posted by Ken
May 15, 2013 at 04:11 AM
MadaboutDana wrote:
>I hope that’s reassuring!
Hi Bill,
Very reassuring, and very much appreciated. It seems like I should just skip a mail client and go directly to MailStore. At this time, I really do not plan on sending these messages back out, so an archive seems to make the most sense. I really appreciate you going the extra mile with answering all of my questions. Time is an even more precious commodity since I am not firing on all cylinders, and your assistance and recommendations are extremely helpful.
A most sincere thanks,
—Ken
Posted by Ken
May 16, 2013 at 01:51 AM
Hi Bill,
I downloaded MailStore-Home today. Boy, that was easy! Thanks again for the recommendation.
—Ken
Posted by MadaboutDana
May 16, 2013 at 01:45 PM
Yeah! Good, innit?!