On 01/01/2017 06:43 AM, Bob Williams wrote:
One of the nice things about Thunderbird is the ability to archive mail locally. I have used it in the past when it worked well. Not any more!
I am using TB 45.6 in Leap 42.2 with KDE Frameworks. I have two accounts, one IMAP and one gmail. I have set the IMAP account to archive messages in the "Archives" folder in Local Folders, but it consistently ignores this setting and moves them into "Archives" on the IMAP server.
The Mozilla help forum has been unhelpful, and googling hasn't provided a solution either.
Does anyone on the list use this feature of Thunderbird? Have you come across this problem?
Yes I use this .... in 13.2, TB 45.6.0 on KDE4 With no problems. I "archive" some of my IMAP accounts to the IMAP server, some to my local file system under various folders under ~anton/Mail/ hierarchy. Lots of specific folders there! I normally use the 'yearly' archive option. Normally you need to set up local folders, but I have a Dovecot server running that makes all of the archived mail in ~anton/Mail/ available to my Thunderbird as another IMAP account. I set the option to "Other". You would need to do that if you used the "Local Folders" methods too. Once you grok the mindset of the developer by reading the wiki (as is always the case with any non-trivial application) Dovecot is remarkably easy to set up. Its doing the complex "ISP/Service provider" stuff with it that gets mind-boggling with all the options and interactions with databases. For a single user on a home machine, the simple server set-up is straight forward and it offers an immense amount of flexibility over regular "commercial ISP" IMAP accounts :-) Its reports like this that make me reluctant to move to LEAP. -- A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org