Ant wrote: > On 6/26/2020 10:39 AM, David H. Durgee wrote: >> I have been using POP3 with most of my email accounts since the >> beginning. For some time now I encounter occasional problems where >> automated fetching of new email fails silently. I only become aware of >> the problem when I notice a lack of email and manually request new mail >> and get the error messages. Fixing the problem requires a restart of >> SeaMonkey. >> >> I have never seen a similar problem with the accounts using IMAP. I can >> access the accounts currently using POP3 via IMAP. Can I simply change >> my server settings for those accounts from POP3 to IMAP, or would this >> cause problems? IN case this makes a difference I am using 64 bit >> 2.53.2 on 64 bit linux mint 18.3 here. > > David, I don't think you can change the e-mail server type in an > existing SeaMonkey's email account. I'd just make a new mail account in > SeaMonkey instead of changing the server name in the old account. In my > SeaMonkey, I have two accounts for the same e-mail service with two > different e-mail server addresses for IMAP and POP3.
I had not noticed that there was no option to change the server type for an existing mail account. Joy. Yes, I could create a new mail account using IMAP, but then I would have two copies of the inbox. Unless there is a way to point the new account to the current folder. Of course I would need to disable polling on the old account first, likely invalidating the server settings to be sure. Of course if the bug that hits were gone there would be no need. Dave _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
