545480 - Document MailNews Archive functionality

Status: NEW

(SeaMonkey :: Help Documentation, defect)

Description

[Jens Hatlak (:InvisibleSmiley)]

Bug 482458 added UI for the Archive functionality. Archiving needs to be documented in Help.

Things to keep in mind:
* there's UI in Account Settings, Copies & Folders (shared with TB) to set the Archive folder location per server
* if the IMAP server doesn't support sub folders, flat archiving (single folder) is done. You can also set it explicitly per server (cf. Bug 486827: mail.server.default.archive_granularity; no UI)
* AFAIK year sub folders need to be created manually currently
* the functionality is subject to change, e.g. cf. Bug 518204 and Bug 512507

Comment 1

[rsx11m]

> * there's UI in Account Settings, Copies & Folders (shared with TB) to set the
> Archive folder location per server

I'm actually covering this as part of bug 608152 for the current options.

> * if the IMAP server doesn't support sub folders, flat archiving (single
> folder) is done. You can also set it explicitly per server (cf. Bug 486827:
> mail.server.default.archive_granularity; no UI)

There is bug 607295 on extending the UI for that option and the folder structure. Also, bug 517514 changed this pref from "server" to "id".