Alan Wehmann writes: > I tried out some of what is described in Info node "External Messages" > yesterday.
Hi Alan, I can't tell what you tried from this info node, but the rest of your message indicates to me that you were using Local Folders. External messages are only available for IMAP Folders. So, I would expect that whatever you tried from the info node would not have had any effect. Since you say that you chose to delete the downloaded messages from the server, the only copies you have now are in the Local Folder. So, please be very careful with what you do with them. They are gone from the server. My impression is that Thunderbird doesn't really have Local Folders for IMAP servers. They are a bad idea. If I had a choice, I would get rid of them. But Kyle Jones implemented them and a lot of people use them. So, it appears that my hands are tied. The variable `vm-imap-max-message-size' is also used for downloading messages into Local Folders but I notice that it wasn't documented in the info node. I will fix that. Cheers, Uday
