I have an account on an SMTP server. The server has a storage quota. I’d like the delete stuff from the server but keep it locally in case I need it. Just in case.

I’d like to be able to access the mail somehow on other computers and hopefully mobile devices on my network so that it can be searched when needed. I’m not sure what the best interface for that would be. A webmail client?

One option would be to use Thunderbird or another client to download the mail once in a while but disable deleting local messages when they are removed from the server. Would Thunderbird store the messages in a format I can use readily with other applications? Or should I use something else to download the mail?

What about situations where messages are moved from one folder to another on the server? Would I get a duplicate locally of the message appearing in both locations? Not sure how the storage and metadata actually are.

Also, is it possible in such a situation to put a message back on the server if I realize it was deleted in error?

Any idea would be welcome. I am a bit stuck.

I can use the command line comfortably but ideally I’d have a solution that doesn’t rely on the terminal to find find messages and such. I don’t really like terminal mail clients.

  • maxprime@lemmy.ml
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    8 months ago

    I think the codec came out in 91 but the file extension was determined in 95, according to Wikipedia:

    The filename extension .mp3 was chosen by the Fraunhofer team on 14 July 1995 (previously, the files had been named .bit).

    I wasn’t intending to doubt you, I was just surprised. Either way that’s pretty cool! It’s fun looking back in the old days of the internet. All I was doing in 95 was playing CD-ROMs and occasionally browsing AOL, having no idea what it was or how it worked.

    My favourite games at that time were Recess in Greece, The Incredible Machine, and some DK Educational games.

    I also have a good memory of my dad pirating Windows 98 with his friend. I later challenged the morals of it and he ended up buying it a license. Little did I know that I would become quite the sailer of high seas myself in only a few years time. I think I downloaded my first mp3 in 2001, maybe 2002, and now have a library of almost 100,000 mp3s and flacs. Good times!