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E-mail question: As I understand, big picture:
IMAP keeps the e-mails on the server (and depending on how I access, can also be a copy on my machine).
POP moves the e-mail from the server to the storage on the local machine (or wherever I have the storage).
Local folders are e-mails stored locally. So my question, when I move (eg copy and delete) an e-mail from IMAP to a local folder, is that more or less like POP but only affects emails I want to take away from server? Eg in #Thunderbird
@hehemrin
In normal implementations, you're deleting it from the server on the next sync operation. If you create a new folder, and it's in the IMAP hierarchy, you're just moving it from one IMAP folder to another.