[imp] several questions from a newbie

[Michael Rubinsky]

Quoting Oliver Lehmann <lehmann at ans-netz.de>:

> Hi,
>
> I've switched from a local POP3 Mail Client to Horde IMP.
> My old Mail Client used Maildir for saving the Mails and migrating this
> back to mbox files resulted in quite huge files. So I decided to write
> my own small php script which imap_append's all single mails into the
> right IMAP folders. But this just as a small side note. Now I've all
> my mails dating back to 2000 back on my mail server.
>
> Together with the switch to IMP I've of course some questions resulting
> from my old habits ;)
> I hope you can help me out.
>
> - Is it possible to easily mark all messages in a folder as "/Seen"?
>   I mean not just the messages shown on the actual page like it is
>   possible right now by just selecting "all messages" and mark them as
>   read. I really mean _all_ messages within a folder.
>   I came across that by first using the Import for smaller mbox files
>   and then having to jump through all pages and mark all mails on every
>   single page as /Seen

Yes, on the "Folders" page.


>
> - I've a bunch of filters set up to move messages automatically out of
>   my Inbox into several other folders. Is it possible to get a count of
>   unread messages for each of my other folders displayed beside the
>   folder name like it is done for INBOX?
>   Does this not happen because of the IMP filter rules and so all
>   filtered messages do no longer appear to be "new"? Can this be worked
>   around maybe by using procmail for moving mails when they arrive
>   directly? Would I get this counter beside each folder when using
>   procmail and not filtering with Horde?

You need to either select to check for new mail for these folders (on  
the "Folders" page), or select (in the Prefs) to poll all folders for  
new mail.

>
> - This one is regarding the Threaded view / sorting. I know this is
>   based on IMAP's c-client mail_thread() but is there a way to only
>   consider the In-Reply-To header and NOT the subject? I'm receiving
>   multiple CVS mailinglists and of course subjects are many times
>   identical when the same file is changed multiple times.
>   IMP then displays all those messages as one thread even if there aree
>   ages between those messages - and they just do not belong to each
>   other. To fix this, just respecting In-Reply-To would help here out.
>   I know this is not directly Horde IMP's business as it relies on IMAP's
>   c-client but maybe someone else has done this in the past and can tell
>   me how ;)

Honestly don't know.


> - When setting up IMP I came across some deletion/reorganisation settings
>   for the "Sent" folder. I definitly do not want any moving or deletion
>   of my Mails in the Sent folder - yes I want to keep millions of mails
>   from thousand of years in this single folder - is that the case or will
>   IMP start to remove or move my mails around there?

Only if you tell it to. Even then, you would be prompted before  
anything happens.


> - Beside the "Sent" folder I could need some help with some sort of
>   automatic deletion of mails in defined (Mailinglist) folders.
>   In the past I just ran a find on my local system to find files
>   older lets say 3 month and delete them from those directories. Now it
>   would be cool if IMP could do this for me after magically setting this
>   up somehow. Is it possible or does someone know how to achive this
>   easily?

Nothing automatic that I know of. I guess you could just do a search  
based on the date using IMP.


Thanks,
mike

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