[horde] Moving emails locally on server

[Louis-Philippe Allard]

On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 10:48 AM, Michael J Rubinsky <mrubinsk at horde.org>
wrote:

>
> Quoting Louis-Philippe Allard <lp.allard.1 at gmail.com>:
>
>  Hello maillist!
>>
>> I am using Horde webmail as my main groupware client in a SoHo setting,
>> and
>> I ucurrently use GMail as my MTA and email backend.  Basically, IMP is
>> configured to be Horde's login and connects with my username+password to
>> imap.gmail.com
>>
>> All works well.  I am currently member of 2 maillists (this one and
>> another
>> project) and I have configured a rule in Horde to move the emails from
>> these two maillists into another folder for archival.
>>
>> In GMail (the webmail, not in Horde) I see those two folders as "labels".
>> That's the way Gmail seems to treats those anyways.  What I'd like to do
>> is
>> to have Horde move them OUT of Gmail into a local folder on the server.
>> Basically once I log in Gmail directly, I wouldn't have access to those
>> emails because they would have been moved locally on the server.
>>
>> Any ways to do this?  I tried creating a new mailbox in Horde, then try to
>> move items into it, what happens is another label is created in Gmail
>> which
>> is not the desired result...
>>
>
> Gmail does not use folders, only labels. So, no, you can't create a "real"
> folder if your only email backend is Gmail. You could either export the
> emails from horde (as a mbox file) or if you have a git install (and access
> to a "real" IMAP account) you can add the real imap account as an
> additional email account and move the emails over via the UI.
>
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I understand that I cannot create a "folder" in Gmail, but is there not a
way to create a mailbox file or folder on the server's filesystem?  AFAIK
all other email clients (thunderbird, MS Outlook, KDE's email client that I
cannot recall the name for) can deal with online email accounts and at the
same time have a local storage on the C: drive or /home (for *nix
machines)...

The EXACT equivalent of what I want to do is the "archive" feature in MS
Outlook with a .pst file on the C drive...