Hallo Mark, On Fri, 14 Jun 2013 00:20:23 +0200GMT (14-6-2013, 0:20 , where I live), you wrote:
MP> Perhaps not a beta-subject, but what is the reason why it is not possible to turn a Pop3-account MP> into an imap-account? Because they're a bit different. IMAP is a protocol for storing your mail online and access it remotely. POP3 is a protocol to retrieve messages. MP> When trying to do so, one gets a screen suggesting to create a new account. That's a reasonable suggestion. ;-) Your POP3 account has lots of (or a few) messages stored locally, in a local folder structure. An IMAP account stores its messages in a remote folder structure. Now suppose that the folder names in your local structure don't conflict with those in your remote structure and you switch from POP3 to IMAP. What would you suppose to happen? - local folders stay local and remote folders stay remote? So when you access your account from one computer, it'll show different messages compared to accessing it from another, because some systems also have local folders... Kind of confusing - or should the local folders need to get transfered to the server? Automatically? Without you telling what stuff you want to get stored online and what not? And these options are what you get with different folder names. I can mention a few even more confusing options when the folder names match. ;-) Considering this, the only sensible thing to do is creating a new account. That way yo know what's local and what's remote and you can decide at your own time when and what you want to transfer from local to remote storage. When you've got a main account with a 5 GB message base like I do, these issues are getting kind of real important. -- Groetjes, Roelof Cthulhu is just an aka for "Moderator." http://www.voormijalleen.nl/ The Bat! 5.4 Windows 7 6.1 Build 7601 Service Pack 1 5 pop3 accounts, 2 imap accounts OTFE disabled i7-2600 3.4GHz 4 GB RAM ________________________________________________________ Current beta is 5.3.8.7 | 'Using TBBETA' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
