On 12/29/2011 2:02 PM, David Pottage wrote:
On 28/12/11 22:21, Rick Romero wrote:
Quoting David Pottage<da...@electric-spoon.com>:
Firstly I wanted to retain the option to switch to the full version of
my mail folders if I needed to access something urgently. My smart-phone
based email client allows me to change the port number of an existing
email account, but will not allow me to change the user-name without
creating a whole new account and re-downloading everything.
I read back through the thread, and I don't see why you're not using
IMAP subscriptions - did I overlook it?
If you mean subscriptions on the smartphone client, I was not using them
because the first IMAP client I was using (native email on a Palm Pre)
did not support them.
I have since switched to an Android phone and started using K9, but I
still find it helpful to filter the list of folders that that K9 sees as
I don't want a huge list with an unmanageable scrollbar, and many of the
folders are archive folders that will never contain anything current, so
it makes no sense to make them accessible except through a desktop client.
I am not saying my solution is the only possible solution but I do think
it is worth recording in the Wiki as others may find my approach useful.
My wife has an Android phone running K-9 and she is able to not display
most of the hundreds of folders that she has. I haven't seen any
drawbacks to that technique on her phone. Well maybe if she got rid of
about a 1000 emails out of her INBOX it would help :-).
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Knute Johnson
knute2...@knutejohnson.com
