My experiences with Mutt to date: Suggestions for overcoming some issues

[boB Stepp]

On 21/02/13 08:01AM, Cameron Simpson wrote:
>On 01Feb2021 03:32, ಚಿರಾಗ್ ನಟರಾಜ್ <mailinglist at chiraag.me> wrote:
>>12021/00/30 09:27.95 ನಲ್ಲಿ, boB Stepp <robertvstepp at gmail.com> ಬರೆದರು:
>>> 2)  I would like to remove all email storage from the cloud, that is,
>>> whether Gmail or ProtonMail, once I have my mail on my local PC I want to
>>> delete it from those accounts.  What would be the best way to do this?
>>
>>If you use a separate mail syncing program like fetchmail or mbsync or
>>whatever, you can tell it to delete emails on the server after
>>(successfully!) fetching them. Personally, I don't know that I would
>>recommend that, simply because you never know when you might actually
>>need access to your emails from e.g. your phone.
>
>I use a comprimise here.
>
>I pull everything from my cs at cskk.id.au inbox, deleting it. But my mail
>filing forwards a suite of messages to a separate account which is for
>my phone. So anything important sends a copy back out to the cloud.
>Well, a personal external server. Um, in the cloud :-(
>
>Likewise, any email I reply to sends the source message and the reply to
>that account.
>
>In this way my phone has access to a copy of the critical stuff and also
>any ongoing email discussions.

So it seems you only concern yourself in keeping relatively current emails
accessible to your phone?  You haven't had occasion to need something from a
while back to fetch on your phone that suddenly becomes needed?

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Wishing you only the best,

boB Stepp