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[R. Welz]

Hello.
I have a question and hope somebody can answer this:

If I have an IMAP email account, does this neccessarily mean that all 
emails are only stored on the server? Or do I get local copies of my 
emails on my Mac with Mail AND having the emails on the server?

The scenario I have is as follows: I have an IMAP server (Cyrus) on my 
linux machine which gets all the system notifications about errors and 
so I produce f.e. with cron and puts them to an IMAP account.

Then I have a printer which sends email messages about print jobs. I 
think I cannot POP the messages from my printer I have to have the 
server collecting the emails for me.

I want to fetch them on my mac thus having my mac as the center of all 
my communications. For the printer emails, local copies would be great 
so I can collect them for later calculating printing bills about say 
all jobs for one month. If my linux machine badly crashes I would not 
have them lost.

But if I cannot have local copies it can save ma a lot of time 
configuring that beast (Cyrus, SSL, SQL, Postfix) and I might look out 
for a POP3 server.

Thanks for advice,
Robert