I'm not a heavy Apple or iCloud user, but can you save your icloud emails to your laptop?

[Yavin4]

Most people who have iCloud accounts keep their emails in the cloud, not on their laptop. I did a quick Google search, and it's a rather involved process to save emails locally.

I say this because the Hunter Biden emails in the NY Post article are from his iCloud address. If so, how would they be on his laptop?

Article on saving iCloud emails locally:
https://www.macworld.com/article/3295007/how-to-set-icloud-to-save-emails-on-your-mac-not-in-the-cloud.html

[brooklynite]

1. iCloud is not used to store email exclusively...

It is intended to sync your mail between your devices (MacBook, iPhone, iPad) so if you make a change on one, it applies to the others. Message are still stored on each device.

[Yavin4]

2. From the article:

Apple’s Mail and most email clients on every platform and from every third party optimize their defaults settings around leaving mail on a server. That’s the modern way, where we can reach the same mail storage on any device, as well as through Web mail.

[samnsara]

3. once we sent all our digital photos to the cloud, I never saw them again....

[AkFemDem]

5. You can opt for that setting on photos

To save space on your hard drive.

No one goes to “the cloud” to read email though, they use a mail app on their device that downloads it.

[AkFemDem]

4. Yes, all my emails go to my laptop and phone directly and

Are simultaneously saved on the cloud.