Jens Hatlak wrote: > Am 10.02.2010 15:54 schrieb David Wilkinson: >> I see there is a new Mail Archive feature in SM2. I don't find a >> description of it in the SM2 Help > > Even worse, there hasn't even been a bug report for that. My bad. Now > there is: > > <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=545480> > >> "The new Archive feature (inspired by Gmail) automatically moves a >> message to an archive folder when you hit "A" with a message open or >> select Message | Archive. > > In SeaMonkey it's Shift+A. And there's a context menu item as well. > >> The archives folder layout sorts messages by year, with subfolders >> for each month." > > That's the default. You can change the behavior using the > mail.server.serverX.archive_granularity pref. > > From the source: > > "This attribute and constants control the granularity of sub-folders of > the Archives folder - either messages go in the single archive folder, > or a yearly archive folder, or in a monthly archive folder with a yearly > parent folder. If the server doesn't support folders that both contain > messages and have sub-folders, we will ignore this setting." > > Single Archive Folder = 0 > Per-Year Archive Folders = 1 > Per-Month Archive Folders = 2 > > As I wrote above the default is 1. > > Note that AFAIK sub folders are not created automatically currently. You > need to do that manually once for each year/month. Or maybe I'm wrong > and only the subscribing doesn't work. Or not always. Anyway, once the > correct folder hierarchy is visible in MailNews the Archive > functionality works as expected. > >> Does this work with an IMAP server? > > Yes. > >> If so, presumably the Archive folder is on the IMAP server. > > By default it's the same server if it supports it, yes. You can set the > Archive folder per server under Account Settings, Copies & Folders. I > for example always set it to Local Folders for all accounts. YMMV. > >> What happens if you have an IMAP server that does not support >> sub-folders? > > Then flat archiving is used automatically.
Jens: Thanks for the great explanations! -- David Wilkinson _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
