Hi Terry, Sounds strange, I've never had to do that before, but I use Google Mail and Live Mail, so it might be a different process for you.
Are you using IMAP to connect to your mail server, because given the choice between that and POP, you probably want IMAP? Hamish On 10/10/18 12:33, Terry Coles wrote: > Hi, > > As threatened some weeks ago, I have just configured Thunderbird to > manage my mail instead of KMail. > > It seemed to be working OK, except that it didn't seem to be > displaying the contents of all of the folders on the server. As many > of you know, I have a number of mailboxes on my server (One and One > hosted) and each box has one or more folders and sub-folders to > contain and organise by mail. > > One of these folders is called /Archive/Government and under it I > currently have: > > Government - > Council - > DCC - > EDDC - > MEP > MP > > etc. > > Each of these folders contains one to many messages, as you would expect. > > In KMail, these folders are displayed correctly, but in Thunderbird I > found that the Government folder was greyed out and I only got the MEP > folder at first. > > I then discovered this: > https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2310625. > > I tried Subscribing and Unsubscribing to the folders in that Mailbox > as suggested and I can now see the folders immediately below > Government, but I can't see the sub-folders under Council. > > Anyone know what is going on here and what is this Subscription thingy > anyway? > > > -- Next meeting at *new* venue: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2018-11-06 20:00 Check if you're replying to the list or the author Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread, don't hijack: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk
