Package: thunderbird
Version: 1:68.10.0-1
Severity: wishlist
Dear Maintainer,
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* What led up to the situation?
I converting a very old mailbox from POP3 to IMAP. It has a lot of folders and
subfolders
* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)?
I quickly discovered that Thunderbird only lets you copy e-mail, not folders of
e-mail. WHile there used to be a
plug-in to handel moving folders, it apparently doesn't work with current
versions of Thunderbird. And the file structures
of POP3 inboxes appear to be different from the file structurs of IMAP inboxes
so that copying the POP3 files outside of
Thunderbird merely results in them being erased when Thunderbird restarts.
* What was the outcome of this action?
It seems to me that copying a folder isn't that much more complicated that
copying e-mails. You simply need to detect
if the folder exists in the destination, and if it doesn't, create it then copy
all the e-mail from the source folder to
the destination. This should, of course, be recursive because folders can
contain other folders.
* What outcome did you expect instead?
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-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 5.7.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=iu_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=locale: Cannot set
LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_CA:en (charmap=locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default
locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages thunderbird depends on:
ii debianutils 4.9.1
ii fontconfig 2.13.1-4.2
ii libatk1.0-0 2.36.0-2
ii libc6 2.30-8
ii libcairo-gobject2 1.16.0-4
ii libcairo2 1.16.0-4
ii libdbus-1-3 1.12.20-1
ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.110-5
ii libevent-2.1-7 2.1.11-stable-1
ii libffi7 3.3-4
ii libfontconfig1 2.13.1-4.2
ii libfreetype6 2.10.1-2
ii libgcc-s1 10.1.0-4
ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.40.0+dfsg-5
ii libglib2.0-0 2.64.3-2
ii libgtk-3-0 3.24.20-1
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.24.32-4
ii libicu67 67.1-2
ii libjsoncpp1 1.7.4-3.1
ii libnspr4 2:4.25-1
ii libnss3 2:3.53.1-1
ii libpango-1.0-0 1.44.7-4
ii libsqlite3-0 3.32.3-1
ii libstartup-notification0 0.12-6
ii libstdc++6 10.1.0-4
ii libvpx6 1.8.2-1
ii libx11-6 2:1.6.9-2+b1
ii libx11-xcb1 2:1.6.9-2+b1
ii libxcb-shm0 1.14-2
ii libxcb1 1.14-2
ii libxext6 2:1.3.3-1+b2
ii libxrender1 1:0.9.10-1
ii libxt6 1:1.1.5-1+b3
ii psmisc 23.3-1
ii x11-utils 7.7+5
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.11.dfsg-2
Versions of packages thunderbird recommends:
ii hunspell-en-us [hunspell-dictionary] 1:2019.10.06-1
pn lightning <none>
Versions of packages thunderbird suggests:
ii apparmor 2.13.4-3
ii fonts-lyx 2.3.5.2-1
ii libgssapi-krb5-2 1.17-10
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