Mail.app, IMAP and Missing email

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ktwdallas

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I use Mail.app and have it set on IMAP to get all the email off my web server. Apparently they had a problem with the server last night and lost this last week's worth of email.

This morning when I brought up Mail.app, all that email was gone. My question is -- since it's IMAP, there should be a local copy of that mail, right? I looked in deleted mail but nothing there.. is there anywhere on the hard drive that it might still be?
 
You have it the wrong way around. IMAP clients do not download messages by default. If you want a local copy, then you must make a local copy.
 
IMAP downloads as well, the difference is that IMAP maintains copies in both places. I can clearly see .emlx copies of each message in my ~/Library/Mail/IMAP-server.com/INBOX.imapmbox/Messages folder. The entire reason IMAP can work "offline" is because there are local cached copies of your email.
 
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