On Wed, 2016-05-25 at 06:19 +1000, Stephen Morris wrote: > How do you configure Tbird for the way you use the mail service > (different retention periods on folders and only downloading mail > you > are interested in), as relative to the retention period of mail on > the > remote server, the version of Tbird I am using appears to only > provide 1 > setting relative to retention on the server which I have set to 7 > days, > rather than as I used to have it set to, to delete when downloaded > (Are > you implementing it via folder level mail rules?). Experience also > indicates that this setting doesn't work properly anyway (I haven't > determined yet whether this failure was relative to imap or pop) as > the > mailbox at the isp's end retained mail that was significantly older > than > than the retention period threshold. I also ran into the issue when > I > switched to imap that for several days afterwards I got duplicate > emails > in my Tbird inbox. My isp's support guys were unable to explain why, > and > also not explain why it was the all the emails that were duplicated > did > not physically exist in their mailbox and emails for the same days > that > were not duplicated still existed in their mailbox. I don't know why you're having this problem, but it has nothing to do with IMAP per se. IMAP has no concept of a retention period. Looks like your difficulties arise from something in your TBird configuration but as I use Evolution I couldn't say what it is. poc -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
