On 05/25/16 04:19, Stephen Morris wrote:
Yes, slightly off topic. So, if you have additional questions feel free to make direct
contact.
How do you configure Tbird for the way you use the mail service (different retention
periods on folders and only downloading mail you are interested in), as relative to the
retention period of mail on the remote server, the version of Tbird I am using appears
to only provide 1 setting relative to retention on the server which I have set to 7
days, rather than as I used to have it set to, to delete when downloaded (Are you
implementing it via folder level mail rules?). Experience also indicates that this
setting doesn't work properly anyway (I haven't determined yet whether this
failure was
relative to imap or pop) as the mailbox at the isp's end retained mail that was
significantly older than than the retention period threshold. I also ran into the issue
when I switched to imap that for several days afterwards I got duplicate emails in my
Tbird inbox. My isp's support guys were unable to explain why, and also not explain
why
it was the all the emails that were duplicated did not physically exist in their mailbox
and emails for the same days that were not duplicated still existed in their mailbox.
The email retention policy is a function available in T-Bird. It isn't an IMAP
server
function.
Simply right-click on any folder and select "Properties". One of the tabs will
be
"Retention Policy" which you can set for each folder.
I have no problems with this feature. Changes made to the policy may not have immediate
effect but can be "forced" by right-clicking on the folder and selecting
"Compact".
When you have an issue with copies of the the same email appearing in a folder this is
normally resolved by going to the Properties of the folder and selecting "Repair
Folder"
on the General Information tab.
How do you work around the stated functionality of imap, that if you have a mail sitting
in your inbox in Tbird and that mail is deleted from the server mailbox it is
automatically deleted from your Tbird inbox as well. When I mentioned to my isp's
support that I wanted to retain old emails in my inbox and that functionality would not
work for me, they told me if I wanted to do that then I would have to switch back to pop
because I would not get it using Imap.?
I don't have this problem since if I want to delete an email from my inbox or a
folder I
actually want to delete it. If I wanted to delete a message that was on the server but
retain a copy I would simply create a folder under "Local Folders" in T-Bird and
copy/move
the email to that folder.
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