[mr_mitm]

> 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.

[throw0101c]

> 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

[camgunz]

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

[mr_mitm]

Ah, now I see what you mean. True.

[ldite]

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