IMAP folders and Thunderbird
Posted Jul 9, 2004 9:49 UTC (Fri) by
ringerc (subscriber, #3071)
Parent article:
The Grumpy Editor's guide to graphical mail clients
The problem you describe with Thunderbird not displaying mail folders
created in other apps on an IMAP connection sounds familiar. I would
advise you to check (a) if the IMAP server has server-side subscription
management, (b) if other mail clients are subscribing you to folders when
they create them, and (c) if Thunderbird is set to "show only subscribed
folders".
Lots of mail clients totally ignore the IMAP subscription system and just
"LIST" instead of "LSUB". This is really annoying when you have a huge
mailbox heirachy and don't usually need most of it - especially when there
are lots of shared mailboxes on your server. Mozilla is not one of them,
but some of the other apps you mentioned may well do this. Because they
don't use the subscription list, they often fail to update it when they
create mailboxes, too.
I know that Thunderbird sees my subscribed mailboxes fine with my Cyrus
IMAPd 2.1.x server (Cyrus rocks to the point where I don't understand why
people run other mail servers). Cyrus has server-side subscription
management, and when I change a subscription in Mozilla then Evolution
picks up the change and vice versa.
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