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Thunderbird & IMAP folders

  • 06-05-2005 06:53PM
    #1
    oscarBravo
    Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 28,863 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    This one's annoying. I normally use Evolution on Gentoo, but I'm stuck using the missus' Windoze box for a while, so I'm using Thunderbird on it. Great piece of software, with a niggle:

    My home server picks up all my pop accounts using fetchmail, and runs it through procmail to sort it into folders based on various criteria. Evolution and Thunderbird read the mail on the home server using IMAP. When I'm using Evolution, it will notify me of new mail in any folder. Thunderbird will only tell me about new mail in the Inbox.

    Does anyone know of a way to get it to keep an eye on the folders?

    Ta!


Comments

  • #2
    tomk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,067 ✭✭✭tomk


    I don't do this myself, but AFAICS, you need to do the following:

    Right-click on each folder that you want checked.
    Select Properties... .
    Click on "Check this folder for new messages".

    HTH.


  • #3
    oscarBravo
    Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 28,863 Mod ✭✭✭✭oscarBravo


    tomk wrote:
    Right-click on each folder that you want checked.
    Select Properties... .
    Click on "Check this folder for new messages".
    I've done that, looks promising. I'll keep an eye on it.

    Thanks!


  • #4
    kyper
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 58 ✭✭kyper


    cool was having the same problem. Now I can ditch evolution and apple mail and have the same email client on my apple/windows/linux and bsd machines :)

    *well happy*


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