movemail account does not work with global inbox
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Mozilla Thunderbird |
Won't Fix
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Low
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thunderbird (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: thunderbird
When setting up a movemail account in Thunderbird, the wizard provides the option to use the Global Inbox with the account. However, this type of account seems not to support the global inbox.
To reproduce:
- Create a new account of type 'Unix Mailspool (Movemail)'. In the wizard choose 'Use Global Inbox' (it is checked by default).
- Send mail to yourself (verify that it arrived with ls -l /var/mail/
- Get mail for the movemail account
Expected behaviour:
- new messages from the /var/mail/username mailbox are moved to the global inbox under the Local Folders account.
Observed behaviour:
- Nothing happens, the Local Folders account does not even have an 'Inbox' folder.
- Instead, messages are copied to the account-local inbox (.mozilla-
- In the movemail account settings, there is no option to control the use of the global inbox (as with POP accounts).
Without the global inbox option reading mail works.
Note: I have no other account configured which could make use of the global inbox (only IMAP accounts) -- in case this matters.
thunderbird 2.0.0.17+
Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Dependencies:
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
Package: mozilla-thunderbird None [modified: /var/lib/
PackageArchitec
ProcEnviron:
LC_TIME=en_DK.utf8
PATH=/
LANG=en_US.utf8
SHELL=/bin/tcsh
SourcePackage: thunderbird
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-7-generic i686
description: | updated |
Changed in thunderbird: | |
status: | Unknown → Confirmed |
Changed in thunderbird: | |
importance: | Unknown → Wishlist |
Changed in thunderbird: | |
importance: | Wishlist → Low |
Changed in thunderbird: | |
status: | Confirmed → Won't Fix |
Created attachment 161160
Setting up movemail account does not offer "Global Inbox".