Am 05.08.2012 03:43, schrieb Linda Walsh:
Seems like there is a bug in Tbird not allowing selection of IMAP only folder that can hold messages and folders (from my quick skim).
? I use IMAP folders which have messages and subfolders. Not sure what you mean.
The tbird folks have not proven very IMAP friendly over the years... with defaults like downloading the IMAP store to local storage on windows to the user's "roaming profile", and then having most of their features only work for local content.
Thunderbird is known to support IMAP very well compared to many other MUAs. The reason to download all mail by default is offline usability and local indexing
They never got that many IMAP servers had search abilities that run quite a bit quicker than a javascript-searches--and that IMAP servers were really like file-systems -- not something to downloaded like POP mail that they predominantly dealt with...
IMAP has search capabilities indeed. But how many do have full text search with an index by default? Perform a remote IMAP full text search on an IMAP server without a full text index and compare the speed with local TB search performance. That said if your personal IMAP server has a full text search index/engine feel free to disable the TB index and disable the fetching of all IMAP mail if you do not need it on the road. Not sure where there is _bad_ IMAP support involved here. I never had mail loss with Thunderbird (not caused by myself) since around 10 years with different IMAP servers. That does not mean that there might be some issue hiding somewhere in some situations where something could happen though. Wolfgang -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org