<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Oct 7, 2008, at 12:11 AM, Linda wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>On 10/6/08 10:55 PM, Aron S. Spencer wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">False. Mail will maintain a local copy of the mail.<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">So there's a copy of all mail on the computer AND a copy of the mail<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">in an<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">IMAP mailbox(es)? Two copies of every email on every computer?<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">no, just one.<br></blockquote><br>So how does Mail maintain a local copy of the mail that isn't subject to<br>disappearing on a computer when it's deleted from the server or from the<br>other computer? That's contrary to most of the IMAP descriptions that have<br>come out of this thread.<br></div></blockquote></div><div apple-content-edited="true"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><br></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px">Mail maintains a cache of the mail that is on the server, but also has mailboxes which are not on the server ("On My Mac"), and you can move mail between the two (Manually or Automatically, your choice).</p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><br></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Aron S. Spencer</font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Union, NJ 07083</font></p><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span></div></span> </div><br></body></html>