Re: From pop3 to Imap

2013-06-14 Thread Roelof Otten
stores its messages in a remote folder structure. Now suppose that the folder names in your local structure don't conflict with those in your remote structure and you switch from POP3 to IMAP. What would you suppose to happen? - local folders stay local and remote folders stay remote? So when you

Re: From pop3 to Imap

2013-06-14 Thread Viktor Kabelac
Hello Mark, I believe that IS possible. You can change from POP3 to any of the advanced protocols. It's apparently not possible to downgrade though (I guess because advanced structures are created in the account for those protocols and removing them isn't possible without loss of data created in

Re: From pop3 to Imap

2013-06-14 Thread Viktor Kabelac
...on a second reading, maybe I'd better read your question more thoroughly the first time...:) Please disregard my answer in case you have found that button, used it and got a different dialog than expected. -- Cheers, V. Current

Re: From pop3 to Imap

2013-06-14 Thread Tony Hoare
Hello Roelof, Considering this, the only sensible thing to do is creating a new account. That way yo know what's local and what's remote and you can decide at your own time when and what you want to transfer from local to remote storage. When you've got a main account with a 5 GB message

From pop3 to Imap

2013-06-13 Thread Mark Partous
Hello Beta-Bats, Perhaps not a beta-subject, but what is the reason why it is not possible to turn a Pop3-account into an imap-account? When trying to do so, one gets a screen suggesting to create a new account. -- Best Wishes, Mark using The Bat! 5.4