On 04/12/2020 14.15, Per Jessen wrote:
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:
You know I have no objection to move to another list. I was only replying to your posts. Continuing on the standard mail list.
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. 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".
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. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.1 x86_64 at Telcontar)