On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 02:42 am, Brian's Mail list account wrote:

1 Imap does not support automatic sorting of emal on the users machine

No, it doesn't, because it's a server side protocol and one typically sets up one's filters and folders on the server side.  This can be done through many e-mail clients, too.

The whole point of IMAP is to have all the heavy lifting done in a single, centralized location so that all clients accessing the same account(s) will see exactly the same thing.
 
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