Eric,
Well, it REALLY turned out to be SUPER easy to convert. Here's the
steps I took:
1). Created a NEW account in Thunderbird to the same user/password,
but set it up as an IMAP account, instead of a POP3. That created a
new folder structure/folder list for <userHIDDEN@in.com> in the list
on the left side.
2). Then, just did a right click/New Folder, and added ALL of the
folders required for his sorted email. I checked in Surge web, and all
of the folders were there, as well, in the More Folders list. Nice
(when it works the way it's supposed to <smile>)
3). Then, went to the appropriate folder in his LOCAL FOLDERS area,
where all the POP3 email was stored, did a CTRL-A to select all, and
then RIGHT CLICK on the selected group. In the resulting popup menu,
there are options to Copy To..., Move To.. (among others). Selecting
"Copy To.." brought up a list of email accounts, and then there were
fly out menus that allowed you to pick the folder to COPY to. (I used
Copy instead of Move at this point). Thunderbird then just copied all
the email from the Local Folder to the appropriate folder in the IMAP
folder tree, and dutifully mirrored it back to Surgemail. I had
Surgeweb Open at the same time, and could watch the email count go up
on the folder as the emails copied over). Attachments, and all were
copied to the server. This was on the same network wire that the
server is located on, so it was nice and quick.
4). Then I went to the other machines in the building where he
retrieves mail, and did the same EXCEPT didn't copy the local email
back. The other thing that I did, was on the config for the new email
account, there is an option on one of the pages to either store email
locally or not. I unchecked that box, to that on those computers,
mail was NOT downloaded, but only read FROM the server. The main
system downloads all mail and stores locally, so there are 2 places in
the office where mail is stored, and we'll setup his home computer to
do the same, so there are 3 locations that store the mail. Sever,
Office main, and home.
IMAP sync is excellet. On one computer, I moved one unread email from
inbox to it's final destination, and watched it move on the other
system virtually instantly.
One problem though, not sure if it's working as designed, or if
there's a setting I'm missing somewhere.
I THOUGHT that in IMAP, each client could have a DIFFERENT set of
subscribed folders. So, on his Netbook, he could just see 3 or 4 of
the most needed folders. If I unsubscribed from a bunch of folders,
when I restarted Thunderbird on a different computer, the subscribed
folders would change to what was selected on the other system. Not a
big inconvenience, just different than I thought it worked. Anyone
have any comments/thoughts on that?
Glenn
Glenn Meadows
Mayfield Mastering
2825 Erica Place
Nashville, TN 37204
P: 615-383-3708
C: 615-394-7717
On Friday 17/02/2012 at 4:39 pm,HIDDEN@mayfieldmastering.com wrote:
> Thanks Eric, but this will be a project that will go over a few days I
> think, John (owner) will probably take days to pare down his current
> email, he still has all sorts of junk that really has zero bearing on
> anything. <smile>.
>
> I'll keep you posted though on how it goes. I'm hoping that IMAP
> works sort of like a NewsGroup Reader, where you can either pull
> headers only, or the full messages down to the client. Might have to
> setup a test account on the server and bang on that for a bit before
> taking the boss over. Yea, that's the ticket, I can do all of that
> remotely from home!
>
>
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> Glenn Meadows
> Mayfield Mastering
> 2825 Erica Place
> Nashville, TN 37204
> P: 615-383-3708
> C: 615-394-7717
>
>
> On Friday 17/02/2012 at 4:31 pm, Eric Vey wrote:
>>
>> On 2/17/2012 4:58 PM,HIDDEN@mayfieldmastering.com wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> and it's only a "view" of what's on the server, with no local copy?
>> That is my understanding of it. In theory, the mail should reside
>> "permanently" on the server.
>> Someone that understands imap better should answer these questions.
>>
>> If you are going to play with this over the weekend, email me
>> privately and we can compare notes because I have been putting off
>> going whole hog into imap, just testing a little and I was intending
>> to cut the pop cord "someday." This weekend is as good as any to try
>> it.
>>
>> Right now, I have my phone set up for imap and my PC running
>> thunderbird pop3 and holding the messages for 7 days.
>> My phone shows 7 days of messages. My PC has several years.
>>
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