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Indi wrote: |
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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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>> 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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One more reasons I gravitated towards kmail ... |
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PS. I'm sure there is a GUI solution to the additional folders it creates |
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too, you need to define the paths for Trash and Sent folders and point these |
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to the server. If you don't it'll create its own. O_O |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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