[plug] Recommended local mail access method

[Shayne O'Neill]

Ah.. Whats the imap server you are using. I've found certainly a diferent
concept in diferent imap servers as to what/how folders are shown and
stored.

I think its to do with the root folder setting. Have a look in squirrel
and see what its set to there, and try puttign that into the thunderbird
thingee.

For reference, I tried to load a ridiculously huge inbox into outlook
express, and the damn thing tried to map my somewhat sprawling home dir
into folders, generating some 2000 folders (I think the damn thing was
even trying to follow symlinks). Naturally I decided that 'outlook express
considered harmful'. It'll be nice when google desktop on my windoze
machine copes with thunderbird, or even better mboxes and maildirs. but
certainly on winblowz referencing mapi would do the trick fine.

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On Mon, 1 Nov 2004, Timothy White wrote:

> Shayne O'Neill wrote:
>
> >yeah.
> >
> >If you just add an imap account as well as the current pop one, when you
> >log into your imap acct, you should be able to just drag and drop em all
> >across. this'll take some time as it transfers 2000 messages back to the
> >server, but that'll work.
> >
> >when you get your new box, log into both at the same time, and then just
> >drag the stuff across.
> >
> It appears that IMAP has different concepts of folders and mailboxes
> than Thunderbird. How can I easily create a new folder (In Squirrelmail
> or Thunderbird) so that I can have subfolders? All the 'folders' I
> create become mailboxes
> Tim
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