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.)
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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/)
- 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
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