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I think this all means probably every non-web email client treats IMAP like POP and keeps its own store. I haven't done a survey or anything, but I'd be surprised if that weren't true.

Pretty sure mutt doesn't. It only caches the headers.

Pretty sure mutt doesn't. It only caches the headers.

Seem like it can cache message bodies:

* http://www.mutt.org/doc/manual/#message-cachedir

* https://neomutt.org/guide/optionalfeatures.html#body-caching

Oh, yeah I guess that's what I mean, and then your connection can be used basically (again) like POP

Ah, now I see what you mean. True.

same for alpine (https://alpineapp.email/)

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