21:39 <sixwheeledbeast> https://www.zdnet.com/article/hackers-wipe-us-servers-of-email-provider-vfemail/

21:39 <sixwheeledbeast> Seems very targeted, inside job maybe?

22:37 <Joerg-Neo900> >>if you connect your client to your new mailbox, allyour local mail will be lost<< HAIL IMAP!

23:13 <atk> that's not really an imap problem, that's a poor instructions problem, the correct process is to create a new account and then just copy or move the mail from one to the other

23:13 <atk> complaining that this doesn't work is like complaining that if you connect to a different database, the data is no longer there

23:13 <atk> your local IMAP mail is just a cache for this online database

23:14 <sixwheeledbeast> You would archive your IMAP locally if there was a concern of lost data at the server end.

23:15 <atk> although in this instance, I am pretty sure they could have configured their imap server to act as if the clients had the most recent copy