On 8/20/2012 12:49 PM, Ed Mullen wrote:
hawker wrote:
On 8/19/2012 8:46 PM, [email protected] wrote:
Hi I am an avid Seamonkey user. Unfortunately, our University requires
us to use an IMAP server. Seamonkey does that very well but prefers to
be used mostly on its own without any other POP3 email account/s. If
you start out with a POP3 account or two and a good sized archived
directory tree, installing an IMAP account wipes the POP3 access to
the directory tree already installed. Installing an IMAP account on an
already in-use POP3 Seamonkey and IMAP wants to install another
directory tree of its own but denies a POP3 account/s access to
its/their former mail archives directory tree. It seems apparent that
an IMAP account and a POP3 account on the one Seamonkey installation
ensures that the two will not comfortably co-exist. I haven't tried it
with Thunderbird as yet but I presume the same would apply....??
Ideally, the IMAP account would exist in the same way as a normal POP3
account and use the same archive directory tree.
Also, It is very hard to find the IMAP new account configurations when
there is a previous POP3 account or two on the one Seamonkey
installation. Why can't we have both and each using the one set of
emails archiving folders?
Kind regards, Robert. Amateur Radio (Ham) Station, ZL2ROB
Skype: zl2rob
I'm also confused.
I have both POP and IMAP accounts on this computer and they do just
great together. I had two POP accounts then added IMAP. The only real
changes I had to make was to define the SMTP server for each account and
change the default account. Other than that they do all keep separate
(no one in basket). If you come from Eudora days this separation may
seem odd, but once you get used to it then the accounts are kept cleaner
with less filtering shenanigans.
That said IMAP support on Seamonkey is poor at best. Lots of bugs and
issues with attachments, refreshing, hung folders, deleting, etc.
Thunderbird (which I use at home) is no better.
Odd. I have none of those issues with SM IMAP.
I suspect the issues resolve around using IMAP to connect to an exchange
server as I see lots of posts on the web about issues with TB to MS
Exhange IMAP. If your doing IMAP to some Linux server there might very
well be no issues I don't know. It was exchange and my mobile phone that
pushed me into IMAP as I prefer POP.
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