And that /might/ work. Difficult to say. My main experience with being completely unable to change the type of account, e.g. POP to IMAP, after the fact, is with Thunderbird. (Even if there’s no under-the-hood hack for this, I suppose you can drag and drop the email from the old POP account to the new IMAP account, and then redownload it in the IMAP account if necessary, and /then/ delete the old POP account.)
Yes. I was just imagining that if someone is “forced” to start using IMAP then they might start using some of its capability, rather than using it in the same manner as POP.
I doubt that Geary /can/ use IMAP in the same manner as POP. At least I haven’t found settings that suggest that, from a somewhat cursory check.
For those following along at home - config is in /home/purism/.config/geary/account_01/geary.ini
(or replace _01 with subsequent numbers if more than one account)
Believe me, I was tempted to set up a dummy server with a short hostname, default port numbers, and no authentication, just so that I could get through the damned account creation process, and then go back in and edit the .ini file. 