I've been playing with this off and on. It appears to take some time, and a similar issue of "When is the operation completed", in this case the copy, in the previous the marking. And I have several folders to archive. However, it's definitely one contender.
I'm thinking that I'd prefer, if I can, to figure out some more or less direct script based on command line (possibly mutt) to get stuff. I've used that for some list mailings that I wanted to get done precisely. Thanks, JN On 10/09/2012 03:16 PM, Murphy Scott wrote: > Have you tried setting up message synchronization under Synchronization and > Storage? That will copy down the files from the server to the local machine > as well as leave them available on the server. > > While it does duplicate messages and increase storage requirements, it does > provide a local copy for offline use and it makes it a lot easier to archive > the messages if they are already locally available. > > Scott > > On 2012-10-09, at 2:59 PM, John C Nash <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Twice this year I've lost some archived messages when moving files from an >> IMAP account to >> local files on Thunderbird. The problem appears to be that the IMAP server >> is slow to mark >> messages, and the "move" then deletes them before moving them. >> >> Since I discovered the problem in Feb, I've been careful, but just now went >> back to July >> and found some message with just blank headers. >> >> 1) Has anyone else seen this? I have a lot of messages, so that could be >> part of the issue. >> >> 2) Any ideas how to ensure the messages are safely moved? I have to delete >> at some point, >> and manual checking is quite tedious. >> >> JN >> _______________________________________________ >> Linux mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux > _______________________________________________ Linux mailing list [email protected] http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux
