I use IMAP also. In Mozilla Thunderbird go to Tools - Account Settings - "Your Account" - Offline & Disk Space. Select "Make the messages in my Inbox available when I am working offline". This will download each message in your inbox in full, only once, when it is received.

There's also a button "Select folders for offline use" that you can use to select other folders that you wish to do this for also. In my opinion this should be the default behaviour, but I suppose it would go against IMAP standard use.



Gottfried Szing wrote:

hi slugs

i am using mozilla with imap, but the support of imap is not really usable if there is a slow dial up connection. mozilla first downloads the headers, afterwards the message body and when i move the message into a local folder, it downloads the message body again. and this is really boring with large messages and dial up connections.

is there a way to sync imap folders with the local mozilla mail folders without restarting mozilla? til now i have used scp to copy the whole inbox to a specific position in the local mail storage folder, but afterwards i had to restart mozilla.

any hints are welcome, gottfried


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