Thread: What to do when /opt gets full?
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2016-03-17 , 15:28
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Originally Posted by pichlo View Post
Emails are meant to be read and deleted, no one needs to keep all of them.
Hmm. I keep mine. Right now, I've got all my (non-junk-mail) e-mail going back to about 2005. It isn't always useful to keep all that stuff, but it is sometimes handy.

Of course, I've got them archived and compressed on a hard drive, I don't try to copy them all to my phone.

OTOH, that's how IMAP works. You need to be online to read your emails.
Well, that's part of how IMAP works. It provides a great deal more support for managing mail on the server, so that you don't need to keep copies of emails on your client. However, there is no requirement that IMAP clients use this feature (or that they cannot locally cache mail that is stored on the server). And while I do use IMAP, I like the ability to cache at least some mail on my phone, as I live in an area of the world with very spotty cell phone coverage...
 

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