"Maybe all those people clinging to Windows 7 are on to something after all."

On Sun, 16 Sep 2018 00:15:23 +0100, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:

In message , Stan Brown
writes:
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Now, if there were just some way to tell Thunderbird that I want to
leave all my online mail on line, and NOT have it copied to my PC.
You'd think that would be simple, but if there's any way at all I've
failed to discover it.

Isn't that what IMAP is supposed to be about (or, at a stretch, POP with
it set to - depending on how the client puts it - to "leave email on
server" or "not delete mail from server)? Obviously, to actually look at
your emails, the client has to download them; whether it then
immediately discards them, is just a matter of semantics.

Yes, it is. That's why I find it so frustrating that Thunderbird
doesn't work that way.

Maybe I'm not understanding what you mean: your reference to "my online
mail" makes me think that is probably the case, as I can't think what
other sort of mail there might be.

By "my online mail" I meant email that I don't deliberately download
from mail servers. Thunderbird downloads it anyway, judging from the
"Downloading" messages in the status line and from the relentless
growth of my profile. Every setting I could find is set for it not to
do that, but it happens anyway.

Thunderbird lets me drag email between local folders, between remote
folders, or between a local and a remote folder. I think that's
exactly what IMAP is for. But even when I don't drag anything to
local folders, and have deleted the emails in the local "Sent"
folder, and have compacted folders -=- STILL my profile grow and
grows.


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