923384 - "mail.check_all_imap_folders_for_new" option confusing and not working

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 522657

(Thunderbird :: Preferences, defect)

Description

[Thomas Stein]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 10.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/6.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; .NET4.0C; .NET4.0E)

Steps to reproduce:

I have a Hotmail IMAP account with some extra folders outside of the "Inbox".
(BTW: IMAP server for Hotmail is imap-mail.outlook.com)

In these extra folders I have some messages.

According to web page:

http://kb.mozillazine.org/index.php?title=Checking_for_new_messages_in_other_folders_-_Thunderbird&printable=yes

I set 
mail.check_all_imap_folders_for_new=true
AND
mail.server.default.check_all_folders_for_new=true

The mentioned web page said that
mail.server.default.check_all_folders_for_new
is server specific. Where do I specify which server (or account) this setting should be assigned?
There is only one global parameter for all of my 5 accounts.
Users cannot assign it to ONE particular account.

Furthermore the web page does not tell if switching these parameters to true will also retrieve EXISTING, old messages or only applies toi NEW messages.



Actual results:

I clicked "Get Mail" in the toolbar but all my existing, old messages from remote hotmail account are NOT retrieved. Only messages from "Inbox" fodler (and subfolders) are retrieved. So access and server setup work in general.


Expected results:

Existing, old messages from the extra folders (outside Inbox) from remote Hotmail account should be retrieved.

Comment 1

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Like these ?
Bug 588772 - Cannot prevent TB from checking email at startup ?
Bug 546553 - default setting for do Not check for new emails at startup does not work

Comment 2

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

or perhaps bug 522657