Anton Aylward wrote:
On 2018-08-25 8:48 a.m., Per Jessen wrote:
Anton Aylward wrote:
Now as I and others have commented the point of IMAp is that you shouldn't have needed to download the messages in the first place. if you intended them to be downloaded to a single device then you'd use POP. But if you planned to read your (remote) mailbox using multiple devices (aka phone/tablet) then you want them left on the IMAP server. It seems TB can *also* download a *copy*.
Yes, I believe this copy is 1) for use in off-line mode and 2) for faster indexing/searching.
Well to those of us that have the capability to be on-line with not just TB/PC but with a variety of portable devices - phone, tablet - all the time, and that's why we're using IMAP rather than POP, this is a bit irrelevant.
Yes and no - faster searching is a Good Thing(r) and it takes the load off the server.
if you want to download for reading all your stuff off-line and to search everything, then fine: use POP.
I have to disagree. Using IMAP in that situation is perfectly valid. Especially when you want to use multiple devices. Judging by my logs, most people use a desktop and a smartphone. Some also a tablet and some also webmail.
I just wish that my email tools could draw on the capabilities of dovecot's indexing and search capabilities better.
It doesn't work for you / your TB ? Which indexing engine do you use in dovecot? (just being curious).
The only thing that does, it seems, is Basil's suggestion that you delete the whole TB account.
After disabling sync, I tried deleting an individual mailbox, that worked fine.
What do you mean by "an individual mailbox"
If you look at your TB directory "ImapMail", and pick one of the accounts, you'll see mailbox files - "INBOX", "Sent", "Trash" etc. Some maybe with subfolders. There is e.g. INBOX = the mailbox INBOX.msf = TB index INBOX.sbd = directory with subfolders.
Do you mean the whole account?
Nope. That's the whole point.
Do you mean all the message in INBOX?
For instance, yes.
What does "worked fine" mean?
That the mailbox was not re-created, that I could still read the emails (now served to me by IMAP), in essence that everything worked fine without a mailbox file. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (14.4°C) http://www.dns24.ch/ - your free DNS host, made in Switzerland. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org