Oh, that was removed decades ago. It never should've been removed, because what aceman says makes sense. I preferred pre-tabs Thunderbird, and majority such changes have been annoying: I still wish I could just have one inbox (multiple movemail AND multiple POP3) which '"one' inbox' also means NO tabs opening EVER (sure, I disabled them, but they still open from various things)... got a bit off-topic now but I don't think wishes of users, to not have such changes forced, were addressed. So anyway, yes, please re-add the feature of global inbox for movemail (people I know who use IMAP would also like global inbox.)
-- 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
