On Wed, 2016-05-25 at 06:19 +1000, Stephen Morris wrote:
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.
I don't know why you're having this problem, but it has nothing to do
with IMAP per se. IMAP has no concept of a retention period. Looks like
your difficulties arise from something in your TBird configuration but
as I use Evolution I couldn't say what it is.
poc