I was going to post almost the exact same question.
Can anyone tell me if there is any difference in behavior in Seamonkey
regarding the Archive folder. One thing I have noticed in the SeaMonkey
2,x is that it periodically re indexes mail folder and if you have a lot
of mail that can take a long time. I was wondering if the Archive
folders are normally skipped in that process. It would seem that they
would not need to be maintained at the same level as the main folders.
Jens Hatlak wrote:
Am 10.02.2010 15:54 schrieb David Wilkinson:
I see there is a new Mail Archive feature in SM2. I don't find a
description of it in the SM2 Help
Even worse, there hasn't even been a bug report for that. My bad. Now
there is:
<https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=545480>
"The new Archive feature (inspired by Gmail) automatically moves a
message to an archive folder when you hit "A" with a message open or
select Message | Archive.
In SeaMonkey it's Shift+A. And there's a context menu item as well.
The archives folder layout sorts messages by year, with subfolders
for each month."
That's the default. You can change the behavior using the
mail.server.serverX.archive_granularity pref.
From the source:
"This attribute and constants control the granularity of sub-folders of
the Archives folder - either messages go in the single archive folder,
or a yearly archive folder, or in a monthly archive folder with a yearly
parent folder. If the server doesn't support folders that both contain
messages and have sub-folders, we will ignore this setting."
Single Archive Folder = 0
Per-Year Archive Folders = 1
Per-Month Archive Folders = 2
As I wrote above the default is 1.
Note that AFAIK sub folders are not created automatically currently. You
need to do that manually once for each year/month. Or maybe I'm wrong
and only the subscribing doesn't work. Or not always. Anyway, once the
correct folder hierarchy is visible in MailNews the Archive
functionality works as expected.
Does this work with an IMAP server?
Yes.
If so, presumably the Archive folder is on the IMAP server.
By default it's the same server if it supports it, yes. You can set the
Archive folder per server under Account Settings, Copies& Folders. I
for example always set it to Local Folders for all accounts. YMMV.
What happens if you have an IMAP server that does not support
sub-folders?
Then flat archiving is used automatically.
HTH
Jens
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