Thunderbird checking mail in all IMAP folders
This came up last night... I'm using Thunderbird (0.6 on Linux, 0.7.2 on Windows) against a Courier IMAP server, and use mailfilter server-side to filter email into 70 different folders. By default Thunderbird doesn't check all folders for new messages when you hit "Get Messages". You can right-click a folder, select the Properties menu, and tick "Check this folder for new messages". But obviously that's rather tedious with that many folders. There is no UI to set "Check all folders for new messages" in Account Settings/Server Settings. After some Googling I found a hack: http://texturizer.net/thunderbird/tips.html#beh_downloadstartup http://texturizer.net/thunderbird/edit.html which works as advertised. -- Martijn
Martijn Koster wrote:
This came up last night...
I'm using Thunderbird (0.6 on Linux, 0.7.2 on Windows) against a Courier IMAP server, and use mailfilter server-side to filter email into 70 different folders.
By default Thunderbird doesn't check all folders for new messages when you hit "Get Messages". You can right-click a folder, select the Properties menu, and tick "Check this folder for new messages". But obviously that's rather tedious with that many folders. There is no UI to set "Check all folders for new messages" in Account Settings/Server Settings.
After some Googling I found a hack:
http://texturizer.net/thunderbird/tips.html#beh_downloadstartup http://texturizer.net/thunderbird/edit.html
which works as advertised.
This is great! Cheers for that Martijn Dave
On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 09:53:50AM +0100, Martijn Koster wrote:
I'm using Thunderbird (0.6 on Linux, 0.7.2 on Windows) against a Courier IMAP server, and use mailfilter server-side to filter email into 70 different folders.
By default Thunderbird doesn't check all folders for new messages when you hit "Get Messages". You can right-click a folder, select the Properties menu, and tick "Check this folder for new messages". But obviously that's rather tedious with that many folders. There is no UI to set "Check all folders for new messages" in Account Settings/Server Settings.
After some Googling I found a hack:
http://texturizer.net/thunderbird/tips.html#beh_downloadstartup http://texturizer.net/thunderbird/edit.html
In case anyone missed the news, one should update to v0.7.2 on Windows because a security bug was fixed yesterday in the current range of Mozilla's products. They patched a Windows bug :-) Linux users are protected by a smugness shield, of course ;-) Tim.
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