Thanks, Jeremy,
Your post has given me a lot to think of. You seem to understand what I want, and I will start by finding out what possibilities my email host one.com can provide. They go for a mass market, so I doubt if they will give me special treatment, but it does not hurt to ask.
I currently use Thunderbird on my desktop and laptop, and I am very satisfied with the setup. My desktop is backed up four different hard disks, of which one is stored at another physical location and exchanged with one of the others a once a week. The desktop is only backed up on a single hard disk, as it is not so important.
I’ll consider using a specialised third party program for importing data from IMAP.
Thanks again for your splendid reply, it was much better than I expected.
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