Allegedly, on or about 25 May 2016, Stephen Morris sent: > How do you work around the stated functionality of imap, that if you > have a mail sitting in your inbox in Tbird and that mail is deleted > from the server mailbox it is automatically deleted from your Tbird > inbox as well. When I mentioned to my isp's support that I wanted to > retain old emails in my inbox and that functionality would not work > for me, they told me if I wanted to do that then I would have to > switch back to pop because I would not get it using Imap.? You won't, since that's not how IMAP is supposed to work. But with the right mail client you can set it to only show the last few days mail in each folder. The server has everything that you don't delete, you just only *see* the most recent mail. You have other options, that you could do with the appropriate software. Such as moving so-many-days-old messages from your inbox to other archiving folders, using automatic rules. e.g. Using psuedo-code: If mail is older than 7 days AND to lists.fedoraproject.org move to fedora folder. That lets you read through your inbox for new mail, and be able to follow on-going threads, but not have a too-cluttered inbox. If you needed to see something older, you'd look through your archive folders. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 3.9.10-100.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Sun Jul 14 01:31:27 UTC 2013 x86_64 Boilerplate: All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point trying to privately email me, I only get to see the messages posted to the mailing list. Lucky for you I typed this, you'd never be able to read my handwriting. -- 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
