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		wolco2 on Dec 11, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: IMAP API – self hosted daemon to access IMAP and S... If you downloaded the messages locally you could.

andris9 on Dec 11, 2020 [–]

Yes. Though IMAP API does not have a storage for emails. It only uses minimal storage for state caching, everything else is retrieved directly from the IMAP server. IMAP API also leverages IMAP server's capabilities for parsing, doing itself as less as possible.

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