From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QTSvz-0004MC-MZ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 06 Jun 2011 06:05:08 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4EC0A1C06C for ; Mon, 6 Jun 2011 06:05:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C09621C02C for ; Mon, 6 Jun 2011 05:24:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 578B81B4017 for ; Mon, 6 Jun 2011 05:24:17 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -3.269 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.269 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=1.263, BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED=-4, RCVD_NUMERIC_HELO=2.067] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id glipnJEnOSHX for ; Mon, 6 Jun 2011 05:24:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00C2B1B4002 for ; Mon, 6 Jun 2011 05:24:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QTSIE-00072X-6i for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Mon, 06 Jun 2011 07:24:02 +0200 Received: from 230.3.169.217.in-addr.arpa ([217.169.3.230]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 06 Jun 2011 07:24:02 +0200 Received: from michaelkintzios by 230.3.169.217.in-addr.arpa with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 06 Jun 2011 07:24:02 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Mick Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: thunderbird "fixed" folders? [SOLVED] Followup-To: gmane.linux.gentoo.user Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2011 06:24:17 +0100 Message-ID: References: <20110606000724.GA7627@gaurahari.merseine.nu> <20110606002724.GB8894@gaurahari.merseine.nu> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 230.3.169.217.in-addr.arpa User-Agent: KNode/4.4.11 X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: db9ca56a367769a397a7920a21b64433 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Indi wrote: > On Sun, Jun 05, 2011 at 08:07:24PM -0400, Indi wrote: >> So, following several suggestions I emerge thunderbird for >> testing, and the first thing I noticed is it does what people >> insist it doesn't do: creates redundant Trash and Drafts folders, >> both locally and (cardinal sin) on the remote server! >> So now in mutt there are all these redundant mail folders screwing >> up my carefully created IMAP structure. >> So, merely invoking thunderbird has created a mess. >> >> Doesn't appear to be fixable... >> Hopefully I'm wrong and there's a trick to it? >> > > Ok, got it -- weirdly enough, one has to use the CLI to address > this. The GUI preferences dialog doesn't have a provision for > making t-bird not create unwanted folders, but once they're created > can be deleted in ~/.thunderbird/ and then they don't come back > when t-bird is restarted. > > Now it's running with only the remote and local IMAP structures > as they're supposed to be. One more reasons I gravitated towards kmail ... PS. I'm sure there is a GUI solution to the additional folders it creates too, you need to define the paths for Trash and Sent folders and point these to the server. If you don't it'll create its own. O_O - -- Regards, Mick -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk3sZIsACgkQVTDTR3kpaLakVACgiDe9CDPfPEyXEJUG15S2MB76 RFIAn0UKzAidEc7SEhKFcHCTzcw/I8qd =wULa -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----