

When we say archive, it really just means moving messages to another location. In this post we’re going to talk about how to archive your emails to a local mailbox on your computer. If you reach your storage limits, this could become a problem and similarly, if there’s ever a problem server-side, you may not be able to access the messages because the problem will sync to your computer. The downsides of server-synced emails are that your mailbox size will continue to increase and that you have a single point of failure. This is because each device first syncs with the server before showing you your emails.

Leaving your email server-side only (similar to being ‘in the cloud’), as occurs by default when using IMAP, results in great synchronization of mail folders between your multitude of mobile devices.
