Considering movemail is similar to pop3 (you pull down msgs locally and then do whatever you want with them), I think this option should be possible. It should be a matter of exposing the prefs (also in the Account manager) and make the movemail backend honor them if it doesn't already. I can probably look at that (seems I already assigned it to myself in the past), but can't look at it due to always finding other higher priority bugs.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to thunderbird in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/299261 Title: movemail account does not work with global inbox Status in Mozilla Thunderbird: Confirmed Status in thunderbird package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Binary package hint: thunderbird When setting up a movemail account in Thunderbird, the wizard provides the option to use the Global Inbox with the account. However, this type of account seems not to support the global inbox. To reproduce: - Create a new account of type 'Unix Mailspool (Movemail)'. In the wizard choose 'Use Global Inbox' (it is checked by default). - Send mail to yourself (verify that it arrived with ls -l /var/mail/<username>) - Get mail for the movemail account Expected behaviour: - new messages from the /var/mail/username mailbox are moved to the global inbox under the Local Folders account. Observed behaviour: - Nothing happens, the Local Folders account does not even have an 'Inbox' folder. - Instead, messages are copied to the account-local inbox (.mozilla-thunderbird/.../Mail/localhost/Inbox). - In the movemail account settings, there is no option to control the use of the global inbox (as with POP accounts). Without the global inbox option reading mail works. Note: I have no other account configured which could make use of the global inbox (only IMAP accounts) -- in case this matters. thunderbird 2.0.0.17+nobinonly-0ubuntu1 Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid ProblemType: Bug Architecture: i386 Dependencies: DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10 Package: mozilla-thunderbird None [modified: /var/lib/dpkg/info/mozilla-thunderbird.list] PackageArchitecture: all ProcEnviron: LC_TIME=en_DK.utf8 PATH=/home/username/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games LANG=en_US.utf8 SHELL=/bin/tcsh SourcePackage: thunderbird Uname: Linux 2.6.27-7-generic i686 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/thunderbird/+bug/299261/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
