Interviewed by CNN on 18/11/2013 14:33, Ray Davison told the world: > I currently have ten mail accounts. They are all either Charter or > Gmail and are all POP. I am trying to establish an account with a new > server that wants IMAP. > > So far that account has not accepted my log-in attempts but that does > not bother me, yet. If I try to copy a message from another inbox to > the new inbox, the new account tries to log in, fails, and the copy fails. > > Is it normal for it to be necessary for an account to be > active/functional to copy to it? I also tried to compose a draft > message. That failed in the same manner as the copy; log-in failed. I > would think copy and compose should work even if there is no WEB > connection, true? > > I deleted the account and created it new, no change. The only > difference I see between the current and new account is IMAP. Can than > effect the local performance?
Yeah, that is normal. With IMAP accounts, the main storage is located in the server -- that is, in your ISP, company server or equivalent. The local storage exist mostly for performance reasons and to allow reading messages offline. But it's regarded as a convenience, not necessarily a full synced copy of the server (in fact, you can tell your client to cache only relatively new messages, or even none at all). The server copy always takes precedence. Thing is, if you are trying to copy/move a message _into_ the IMAP account, your mail client needs to contact the server in order to upload the message there. Otherwise, you would have a situation with a message in local storage that has no corresponding one, past or present, in the server. That is not allowed by the IMAP protocol. There's a lot to like about IMAP, not the least being having exactly the same mail folders in different computers/tablets/smartphones/webmail, with read/deleted/flagged status replicating from one device to another. But it does involve a slight rethinking of your assumptions. -- MCBastos This message has been protected with the 2ROT13 algorithm. Unauthorized use will be prosecuted under the DMCA. -=-=- ... Sent from my Daystrom M5 Multitronic System. * Added by TagZilla 0.7a1 running on Seamonkey 2.22 * Get it at http://xsidebar.mozdev.org/modifiedmailnews.html#tagzilla _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
