[Users] imapcache folder contains all and complete messages from the IMAP server(s) ?

[Olivier Esser]

On Mon, 28 Mar 2022 18:23:48 +0300
Cristian Secară <liste at secarica.ro> wrote:

> Suppose I want to do a backup of my e-mails from one of the IAMP accounts. I see that the imapcache folder contains all my recent messages in complete form (i.e. including attachments), but I only checked a few messages, at random.
> 
> Provided that I already entered for viewing all IMAP subfolders by just clicking on each, should I assume that all e-mails from server are cached (mirrored) locally ?
> 
> Thank you,
> Cristi
>

As others have said, you have to open the e-mails in order to have the IMAP cache. I think it would be much better to create a local mailbox and to copy the e-mails in this new mailbox.

Olivier