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Be careful using Thunderbird to move mail between IMAP4 servers, on Linux at least - I've had it lose messages on me, deleting them from the source before they'
by bklaasen 6y ago
Be careful using Thunderbird to move mail between IMAP4 servers, on Linux at least - I've had it lose messages on me, deleting them from the source before they're successfully written to the destination.
I was moving mail from a Gmail account to a Gandi account about a year ago, before the recent spurt of development activity on Thunderbird.
- akerro 6y ago>I've had it lose messages on me, deleting them from the source before they're successfully written to the destination. Copy folders then?
- miedpo 6y agoThe trick here is to not close the program while the move is taking place (or so I've found). Also using copy over move is a bit better. Stupid bug though, I know :p.
- jeffbee 6y agoAm I the only one still using Evolution? I think its IMAP implementation is a lot better than Thunderbird's. I think this could be due to the fact that Evolution was initially written by people experienced in writing mail _servers_ but at this point I'm not sure how much of Evolution 1.0 code survives in 3.0.
- JonathonW 6y agoThe only time I've ever lost mail was while trying to move a bunch of messages in Postbox (shares Thunderbird's backend). Wasn't even moving between servers-- this was just a folder-to-folder move. Always copy, verify that the messages really are at the destination, then delete. I don't know why this isn't what Thunderbird does on its own when you move mail, but it isn't.