[LCA2019 Chat] Thunderbird, dovecot and imap

[Paul McInerney]

Hi Jonathan

Have a look under their account settings for the particular IMAP 
account, and look what they have set for 'Message Synchronising' under 
'Synchronisation & Storage'.  Do they have 'Keep messages in all folders 
for this account on this computer' selected ?

There is an 'Advanced' option to allow you to select which folders are 
downloaded in full.

(I'm using Thunderbird 60.2.1 running on Ubuntu connecting to a dovecot 
IMAP service)

Cheers

Paul

On 22/1/19 9:51 am, Jonathan Woithe wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I have a thunderbird user whose laptop periodically decides to download all
> their mailboxes in full for no apparent reasons.  Only the one user sees
> this, and it happens roughly once or twice a fortnight.  There is no obvious
> trigger.
>
> Thunderbird uses imap to communicate with the mail server, and the imap
> server is dovecot.
>
> I would be really interested to talk to anyone who might have some idea as
> to why this might be, or things I could check.
>
> Regards
>    jonathan

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