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How far back you keep emails?

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Liviathan

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In my sent folder I got mail from January 2003.

I think I archived older ones...I am sure I don't need them, but my OCD doesn't let me clean them up.

 
Just create a POP account as well as the IMAP one; then you can have all your mail on your computer as well as everything that's on the server, should something happen to the server.
 
I have ancient emails.... well into the 90's. A lot of things I keep archived, particularly things of financial importance.
 
The oldest I have now is from 2001. I used to have some from 1999, but I must have archived them or deleted them.
 
In my school account, I have some from August '98 :Q

Very early on, I set it up to bounce everything received there to my Hotmail account. It kept everything that was in there at the time, and it's still there now.
 
Oldest I can find at the moment are from 1984. I probably have some older ones somewhere, but I'm not sure if they'd be in a format I can read with any of my current computers.
 
Originally posted by: Syringer
What is IMAP anyway?
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Kind of like a webmail setup where your email is stored on a outside server that you can connect to anywhere and use it like you were using the email locally. Outlook and such have built-in capabilities for IMAP.

Definition:
IMAP stands for Internet Message Access Protocol. It is a method of accessing electronic mail or bulletin board messages that are kept on a (possibly shared) mail server. In other words, it permits a "client" email program to access remote message stores as if they were local. For example, email stored on an IMAP server can be manipulated from a desktop computer at home, a workstation at the office, and a notebook computer while traveling, without the need to transfer messages or files back and forth between these computers.

IMAP's ability to access messages (both new and saved) from more than one computer has become extremely important as reliance on electronic messaging and use of multiple computers increase, but this functionality cannot be taken for granted: the widely used Post Office Protocol (POP) works best when one has only a single computer, since it was designed to support "offline" message access, wherein messages are downloaded and then deleted from the mail server. This mode of access is not compatible with access from multiple computers since it tends to sprinkle messages across all of the computers used for mail access. Thus, unless all of those machines share a common file system, the offline mode of access that POP was designed to support effectively ties the user to one computer for message storage and manipulation
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Is that similar then to having the option "Leave a copy of message on server" checked? And if you use a POP mail server can you just have it set to IMAP and it'll store messages on the server?
 
Originally posted by: Syringer
Is that similar then to having the option "Leave a copy of message on server" checked? And if you use a POP mail server can you just have it set to IMAP and it'll store messages on the server?
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Its sort of the same. With Imap you get full control of the server folders and stuff.
 
From 2-17-1996. It's like a journal to me. I can search it, and dig up names, dates, model numbers, and all sorts of info that comes in handy more often than you'd think!
 
My 'current' mail archive goes back to January 23, 2001 - when I started using Outlook. I've got Outlook Express archives around here on CD... Eudora & Juno too... Just about every e-mail I've ever received (after the first year or two I was online) is saved in one of my archives.
 
summer 1994

Unfortunately they're in various PINE folders and I'm not sure how to merge them all without deleting or any overlapping.
 
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