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Apparently, though unproven, at 02:27 on Monday 06 June 2011, Indi did opine |
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thusly: |
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> On Sun, Jun 05, 2011 at 08:07:24PM -0400, Indi wrote: |
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> > So, following several suggestions I emerge thunderbird for |
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> > testing, and the first thing I noticed is it does what people |
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> > insist it doesn't do: creates redundant Trash and Drafts folders, |
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> > both locally and (cardinal sin) on the remote server! |
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> > So now in mutt there are all these redundant mail folders screwing |
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> > up my carefully created IMAP structure. |
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> > So, merely invoking thunderbird has created a mess. |
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> > |
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> > Doesn't appear to be fixable... |
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> > Hopefully I'm wrong and there's a trick to it? |
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> Ok, got it -- weirdly enough, one has to use the CLI to address |
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> this. The GUI preferences dialog doesn't have a provision for |
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> making t-bird not create unwanted folders, but once they're created |
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> can be deleted in ~/.thunderbird/ and then they don't come back |
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> when t-bird is restarted. |
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> Now it's running with only the remote and local IMAP structures |
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> as they're supposed to be. |
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Believe it or not you are supposed to "make invisible" all the junk the app |
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created. |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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