On 04/12/2020 15.22, Per Jessen wrote:
Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 04/12/2020 14.15, Per Jessen wrote:
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.
Ok, I tried that operation and it worked (I was surprised), although leaving Thunderbird busy and not responsive for several minutes. But that is not the operation I need to do.
You said "namely how to download email to local machine at some point in time", which is what this copy operation does.
Well, you interpreted that differently from me - the idea of dragging the whole inbox structure (with subfolders) never occurred to me. I have mentioned not a month ago that what I do is move is old mail from the Inbox to local computer. The selected messages, which is part of the inbox, not all.
Typically I would select a bunch of old mails in the INBOX and try to drag them to another folder, typically a folder under my local dovecot server. I tried that a week ago and failed. I try now, and it fails, does nothing. The block can be dragged, but on mouse release the blue block goes back to INBOX. Same if destination is on "local folders".
I have just moved 7 files from one subfolder to another under the same IMAP account, worked just fine. Even Ctrl-Z to undo worked fine.
What is a "file" in this context? If you mean "mails", then yes, mails from a subfolder of inbox can be moved. Not from the inbox itself. I never had subfolders of Inbox, so I never tried. See <https://paste.opensuse.org/79698522> That's where my Thunderbird buts the subfolder of the Inbox. Not right below the Inbox at the top. I can not use that setup.
Then I moved them into a subfolder under "Local Folders", also worked just fine. Also Ctrl-Z.
All on our hosting dovecot server - I don't have access to another one to try a server-to-server.
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.
Well, see above, what I move are the old messages from the folder. Typically those older than two months. Not the entire folder. And I do it using Alpine because it runs faster, and makes marking messages with criteria easier.
Maybe Alpine is buggy or functionally incomplete?
Why? It moves messages well and fast. It does not move or copy "folders" to my knowledge. I looked again and no, it can't. Notice that it is a text mode program, drag and drop concept does not exist. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.1 x86_64 at Telcontar)