Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 03/12/2020 20.27, Per Jessen wrote:
Carlos E. R. wrote:
Even if the ISP allows sorting into several folders, that causes a new problem, namely how to download email to local machine at some point in time, because they can be distributed on dozens of different folders that require a separate download operation for each.
Actually, with IMAP it is a simple drap-and-drop operation. No separate download operation required.
No.
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With Thunderbird, drag and drop a folder does not work. Try.
I really think we have gone wayyyy off-topic, but if you insist. With Thunderbird: Hold down the Ctrl key (for a _copy_ operation) and use the mouse to drag a folder from the IMAP account to e.g. "Local Folders". That creates a copy of the entire tree, messages are downloaded etc. I have just now (to double check) copied "ml-admin", a subfolder under my Inbox on my opensuse.org IMAP account, with two more levels of subfolders, and some 3000 messages in total. Took a little more than 30 seconds.
It is select messages in one folder, right click, move to, select destination folder. One by one.
See above. If necessary I'll be happy to make a video? I made a couple of screenshots, see attached. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (2.1°C) Member, openSUSE Heroes
