Since you are using the Hotmail POP server to manage receipt of your Inbox to Thunderbird it occurs to me that you could also use a Thunderbird filter to simply throw away any messages that the Hotmail add-on downloaded from the Hotmail Inbox and just work with the messages downloaded from the custom folders.
On Dec 19, 10:06 am, alanrf <[email protected]> wrote: > The extension, as currently designed, cannot be used to just perform > the task you want. > > The extension, by default, always works on the Inbox of the Hotmail > server and would, at minimum, download any unread messages from the > Hotmail Inbox to the Thunderbird Inbox for the Hotmail account. > > The extension can download messages from the Sent folder and other > custom folders on Hotmail by specifying those folders in the Hotmail > add-on options. However the extension cannot change the basic way > Thunderbird works in accord with the POP3 protocol. That means that > all messages must be delivered to the Thunderbird Inbox. > > The add-on does add an X-Folder header line in the message which > includes the name of the folder from which is was downloaded. Filters > can be created in Thunderbird to move the message to the appropriate > Thunderbird folder based on the X-Folder header line. > > On Dec 18, 10:22 am, JavaSrvcs <[email protected]> wrote: > > > OK, so I can successfully pop email from hotmail.com into > > Thunderbird. Now I want to download my existing Sent folder (all old > > messages), my Drafts folder and all other folders. > > > I use thunderbird at home and web based mail at work. > > > Is there anyway I can go home each night and have thunderbird download > > all new Sent items that I sent using web based mail that day? > > > I want Thunderbird to have a local mirror (using pop3) and though > > webmail with hotmail plugins would do the trick. > > > I went to options and added Sent and Drafts and even one other user > > created folder with 100+ emails and popped the mail but I did not get > > any of these folders. > > > Does this option work or is it misleading to think I should be able to > > do this? Am I using it correctly? > > > Your help is greatly needed to get this working, or to find another > > solution for downloading a local copy on my hard drive all all mail in > > hotmail web based mail each day of NEW items (any, incoming, sent, > > drafts) that were created. > > > thanks > > > jv -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thunderbird Webmail Extension" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/thunderbird-webmail-extension?hl=en.
