[horde] Moving emails locally on server

[Michael J Rubinsky]

Quoting Louis-Philippe Allard <lp.allard.1 at gmail.com>:

> 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.
>>
>> --
>> mike
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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?

No.

>  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 difference is, those are desktop clients, running on your  
personal/local machine. Horde/IMP is running on a server shared with  
(at least) every webmail user who may or may not even have a physical  
home directory/account on the box.

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

The closest to this would be what I suggested about exporting the  
mailbox locally. This gives you a standard mbox file containing the  
exported messages.

-- 
mike
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