[ale] OT ways to use your tablet at your desktop

[JD]

On 08/05/2013 02:35 PM, Ron Frazier (ALE) wrote:
>>> What IMAP client doesn't let you read emails locally when you're 
>>> offline?
>>> 
> 
> My understanding of imap is that it only accesses emails directly from the
> server and does not store them locally.  Thus, no reading offline.  I could
> be wrong.  I tried imap with eudora open source (based on thunderbird) and it
> didn't let me tag and sort the messages the way I like and propagate those
> through the server to other machines.  Also, I have tens of thousands of
> archived messages from energy mailing lists, etc. going back a decade.  I
> don't think my ISP wants me storing that much mail.

Everyone of my IMAP clients caches downloaded messages locally until the cache
limit or storage runs out, then removes the oldest ones.

Nothing says you can't run an IMAP server at home, pull messages from your ISP
and have access to both stores.