157429 - Non-synchronising IMAP folders. All imap folders should be checked for new mail.

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(MailNews Core :: Networking: IMAP, enhancement)

Description

[Michael Klose]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.1a+) Gecko/20020707
BuildID:    2002070704

It would be nice if you could select an IMAP folder to be non-synchronising.

What I mean is that only new mail is fetched and a folder that you have set not
to synchronise would be like POPing into a folder using POP3. Changes to an
email which has been retrieved in such a folder will not go back onto the IMAP
server.

This would be very useful for mailing lists which tend to use up a lot of space
on the server.

The options I am seeking are:

[ ] Synchronise folder (default: selected)

(and if not selected)
    
   [ ] Delete retrieved mails on server
     [ ] Keep mails in folder after fetching
          [ ] Delete after [   ] days

Some email providers allow you to use POP to retrieve emails in a folder by a
non RFC-conform method by specifying the foldername which is to be retrieved in
the POP user name.

This would achieve the same thing and would work with every IMAP server.

Comment 1

[Henrik Lynggaard Hansen]

Confirming bug

Comment 2

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

David, wouldn't this be outside the imap spec.  Even though optional, comment 0 making imap behave like pop is a bad model. (cc: Bryan about the UE aspects)

Comment 3

[David :Bienvenu]

yeah, this is not really what imap is about. If you really want this kind of behavior, you could filter the mail into a local folder.

Comment 4

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

wontfix then

Comment 9

[99zx6r]

wow so this HUGE bug is being ignored/wontfix'd.
I unistalled firefox cause it's not locally secure and ignores the user's selections of settings silently and i guess thunderbird is bad too.

every so often even if you select offline mode it will delete every mail from the profile folder - i have been keeping a daily backup of the profile folder so i can copy-paste when it does this.

no software should just wipe a profile cause it can't find a server especially when the user has selected to keep mails for offline use...

yet again terrible coding guys.

Comment 10

[99zx6r]

and to bring it directly back to the original bug posted.

you have to click on every folder to force it to sync, and guess what...often if it can't connect/fails/times-out it wipes every mail/folder from the profile the next time you start thunderbird even in offline mode

mozilla is now possibly the worst software i have ever used.

wontfix=bye bye