235013 - Feature Request: Ability to move local folder to IMAP server

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(MailNews Core :: Networking: IMAP, enhancement)

Description

[R Vietri]

User-Agent:       
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040115

A feature which is implemented to different extents in different mail managers
is the ability to move folders (especially folders of more than 1 level of
depth) from the local mail store onto a IMAP server without having to first
create the folder on the IMAP server and then drag the messages across. This can
take hours when dealing with lots of deep folders and proves to be impractical.
It would be great if thunderbird could fully implement this. 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Drag folder from local folder store to IMAP server
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
Disallowed

Expected Results:  
Move local folder to IMAP Server (by creating folder(s) and then moving messages)

Comment 1

[David :Bienvenu]

taking.

Comment 2

[David :Bienvenu]

*** Bug 238452 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3

[Olaf Menkens]

Another similar feature, which we would need urgently, is moving of folders from one IMAP-Server to 
another IMAP-Server. Btw., other mail clients (like Outlook or Apple Mail) are already able to do this. So 
we currently help ourselves by deploying these foreign mail clients for moving the mail folders.

I guess, this feature could be implemented together with this bug 235013, that's why I don't want to 
create a new bug report.

Comment 4

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

*** Bug 157695 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

David, any news about your work here? Is it possible to get this fix in for 1.8beta?

Comment 6

[David :Bienvenu]

ah, no progress. I'll put it on my list.

Comment 7

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

*** Bug 249476 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8

[Victor Cisneros]

I am very much interested in this feature, as our university is interested in
moving around 1700 users from a POP3/Eudora 6.2 solution to an IMAP/Thunderbird
1.0 solution. CC'ing myself to the list.

Comment 9

[David :Bienvenu]

*** Bug 279753 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 10

[David :Bienvenu]

Attachment: proposed fix

this does local folder to imap server, and cross imap server copies. It handles
nested folders as well. It forces the operation to be a copy, just to be on the
safe side with error handling...I need to fix progress for this, but I think
that's in another area of the code.

Comment 11

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

Comment on attachment 173984 [details] [diff] [review]
proposed fix

a=sspitzer

Comment 12

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

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