britechguy
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This question isn't really specific to any one email client (or even access method, for that matter) and I've never given it much thought.
A person who's soon to become emeritus faculty at a local university has contacted me about moving her e-mail "before they close the account." The first thing I told her is that she needs to check with her IT department, because most universities I know of support emeritus accounts for former faculty and staff, even some graduate students who've since moved on.
If, however, there is no emeritus status, is there an easy/standard way to set up an account on a home machine, let it sync all the email locally (which can definitely be done easily for IMAP, and I'd have to presume Exchange, too), then just stop it from continuing to try to sync after the date that the underlying account goes out of existence on its server?
For myself, were I faced with this situation, I'd really rather have "an archival account" in my email client where all my messages from "that era" just sat there, but in the same account and folder structure where they always had been. The primary difference would be that the account itself no longer exists for synchronization, and should be taken out of "synchronize all accounts."
Is this something that's done, or is there a better solution? Access to that email as though it were "live" is still needed, whatever approach is taken.
A person who's soon to become emeritus faculty at a local university has contacted me about moving her e-mail "before they close the account." The first thing I told her is that she needs to check with her IT department, because most universities I know of support emeritus accounts for former faculty and staff, even some graduate students who've since moved on.
If, however, there is no emeritus status, is there an easy/standard way to set up an account on a home machine, let it sync all the email locally (which can definitely be done easily for IMAP, and I'd have to presume Exchange, too), then just stop it from continuing to try to sync after the date that the underlying account goes out of existence on its server?
For myself, were I faced with this situation, I'd really rather have "an archival account" in my email client where all my messages from "that era" just sat there, but in the same account and folder structure where they always had been. The primary difference would be that the account itself no longer exists for synchronization, and should be taken out of "synchronize all accounts."
Is this something that's done, or is there a better solution? Access to that email as though it were "live" is still needed, whatever approach is taken.
