[15457345234]

This thread is very strange with people talking about mail formats and methods of handling email that haven't seen serious use since 1990

I mean, I studied Comp Sci at university in 1997 and we were given IMAP credentials

[eru]

I used maildir with mutt in the 2010s.

[15457345234]

You and 100 other people globally

[anthk]

You are very wrong, lots of people saves down email in order to be sure.

You can use Maildir with IMAP. mbsync will do it fine. Dito with SMTP and msmtp.