284500 - Mail is not verified in IMAP subfolders

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 289208

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Matthieu Pupat]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040808 Firefox/0.9.3
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On an IMAP account new mail can not be verified in all subfolders.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Hit "Get mail" on an IMAP account

Actual Results:  
New mails appear only at the root

Expected Results:  
New mails should appear in any folder

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

right klick on the subfolder and select "check this mail for new messages" or set 
mail.check_all_imap_folders_for_new to true via user.js (that is global)

Comment 2

[Matthieu Pupat]

1. Too much work for my nulber of folders
2. Is it possible to have an option to do this not a hidden feature ?

Comment 3

[Matthieu Pupat]

Furthermore I cannot found any user.js in C:\Documents and
Settings\myaccount\Application Data\Thunderbird

Comment 4

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

You have to create a user.js as a textfile...

Comment 5

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

-> invalid (need to enable the subfolders for checking mail)

Comment 6

[Matthieu Pupat]

Would it be possible to have this as an option in the Preferences. I am not sur
Aunt Marta will find this esay (if she ever find this ....)

Comment 7

[Matthieu Pupat]

(In reply to comment #5)
> -> invalid (need to enable the subfolders for checking mail)

Furthermore this is not a solution. If I get an IMAP account with 50 folders I
dop not want to enable them one at a time.

Comment 8

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 9

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 10

[Matthieu Pupat]

This is still not corrected

Comment 11

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

invalid per comments before
and DO NOT reopen this time, this behaviour wont change.

Comment 12

[Matthieu Pupat]

I asked for a friendly UI to configure this ?

Is this not possible ?

Do you want ThunderBird to be for an "elite" ?

Comment 13

[Marco]

Hello!

I know that you're very busy, but still I would like to notify you that there are others, too, who are interested in a more user-friendly way to configure the new-mail-check of ALL folders.

BTW: Why not provide a generic configuration UI like the about:config in firefox? That's of course not as user-friendly as an entry in "Edit / Account Settings", but it would be definitely better than manually creating a file. And being generic, it's a one-fits-all approach and therefore a very good compromise.

Best regards, Marco :-)

Comment 14

[Jesse Glick]

Possible dupe of bug #289208.

Comment 15

[Matthieu Pupat]

Yes this is what I'm asking for but the way seems long ....

Comment 16

[Nikolay Shopik]

Tools->Options->Advanced->Config Editor->
mail.check_all_imap_folders_for_new = True

Comment 17

[Matthieu Pupat]

Does not look like something Aunt Martha would find easily but anyway it is still godd to have an answer to this after so many years.