On 6/26/2020 1:43 PM, David H. Durgee wrote:
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.
What I did was use POP3 as my primary/local e-mail storage since I don't
really like keeping my personal e-mails on the servers. I use IMAP once
in a while. I move all its remote e-mails to my POP3 account to keep
locally by dragging and dropping between accounts' folders in
SeaMonkey's e-mail client.
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