Re: Re[2]: IMAP4 Configuration

[Allie Martin]

Hi [EMAIL PROTECTED],
On 24/3/2005 8:34 PM -0500, you wrote:
IMAP4 is the only protocol for the free accounts at that place.  May
be I should just ditch that account?
If at all possible, yes. If you want POP3 like behaviour, then POP3 is 
the way to go. TB! works a whole lot better with POP3 accounts.

1. First I need to know how to move the messages from the server to my
PC. How do I do that?
Make a local folder, i.e., a common folder or a folder in a TB! POP 
account. Select all the messages in the IMAP account, then drag and 
drop them to the local folders.

Sometimes this doesn't go smoothly and exporting the IMAP messages to 
file and then importing them to the local folders makes the better 
option.

2.  What is the filter for all messages -- *.* ??  And I guess I
delete the messages under the Action tab?
You could create a filter that matches 'e' in the headers. This will 
catch all messages. Have the message moved to the local folder and then 
deleted.

3.  Then how to set a filter for further filtering the incoming
messages to other folders/accounts?  Or is #2 and #3 are just one
filter?
You need a separate filter for each destination account and folder in 
which case, you'd need to be more selective with your string matching.

The Bat created the default folders when the account was created. And
I added a few. Must the folders in TheBat match exactly with the
folders on the server?  [I really don't want these other folders on
the server -- even if they are all empty.]
Once you create a folder in TB! for your IMAP account, you've created 
one on the server. Right click the IMAP account and select 'Manage IMAP 
folders', or just hit Alt-F7. There you'll see all folders on the 
server. If you create a folder in TB!, you've created the same folder 
on the server and autosubscribed to it.

Separately, this IMAP4 account did not port over well when I switch
over from v1.x to v2.x.  So I had to delete the old and create a new
account with IMAP4 protocol.  And I copy over the messages.tbl and
.tbi. However, v2 is not displaying all the messages.  How can I get
it to display messages in that account?
I'm not sure about that. Try the 'Manage IMAP folders' to see what's on 
the server and subscribe to all the folders that are there.

--
Regards,
Allie Martin

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Re[2]: IMAP4 Configuration

[z5worg]

Thursday, March 24, 2005, Allie Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Hi [EMAIL PROTECTED],
  On 24/03/2005 06:35 AM -0500, you wrote:

 I recently started to use v2 that I bought overght 1-yr. ago.  I have no
 idea how to configure it for IMAP4 protocol.  All I want to do is
 download all messages from the server; and automatically delete them on
 the server after download.

 Why would you wish to do that with IMAP4. That's what POP3 is for, and
 furthermore, I'm not sure that IMAP only accounts exist. Usually
 they're manageable using only POP3 or both IMAP and POP3.

IMAP4 is the only protocol for the free accounts at that place.  May be
I should just ditch that account?

 Since v2, TB! does IMAP the way it should be done in that the messages
 are truly managed on the server and kept there. If you wish to do what
 you want, then you'd need to create filters to delete the messages as
 they're found on the server and move them to local folders on your
 system.

1. First I need to know how to move the messages from the server to my
PC. How do I do that?

2.  What is the filter for all messages -- *.* ??  And I guess I delete
the messages under the Action tab?

3.  Then how to set a filter for further filtering the incoming messages
to other folders/accounts?  Or is #2 and #3 are just one filter?

 The local folders would be either common folders, or folders within a
 POP account. The folders you create in an IMAP account are actually
 folders created on the server.

The Bat created the default folders when the account was created. And I
added a few. Must the folders in TheBat match exactly with the folders
on the server?  [I really don't want these other folders on the server --
even if they are all empty.]

Separately, this IMAP4 account did not port over well when I switch over
from v1.x to v2.x.  So I had to delete the old and create a new account
with IMAP4 protocol.  And I copy over the messages.tbl and .tbi.
However, v2 is not displaying all the messages.  How can I get it to
display messages in that account?

-- 
Thanks in advance
JM


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Under Windows XP 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 1




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