I have several POP accounts.
I may be forced to use at least one IMAP account from Protonmail.
Firstly; Will having multiple POP and one or more IMAP accounts on the sam… (read more)
I have several POP accounts.
I may be forced to use at least one IMAP account from Protonmail.
Firstly; Will having multiple POP and one or more IMAP accounts on the same Thunderbird be an issue?
Secondly. IMAP by its very nature is insecure and high risk. Email is stored on servers I have no control over, that can fail, be hacked, sold off, backed up or a number of other things. Sure, my PC could potentially be hacked, but I'd much rather have my emails, which are very personal and private to me somewhere that I control.
I have no mobile devices. I use only one PC for email. It uses only Thunderbird. I do not now or ever want to use web email.
So, how do I delete emails from an IMAP server? I read somewhere that I need to move emails to my local folders? So I would need to set up a filter to move all incoming email to a secondary inbox and then another filter into the relevant sub folders. I get some email from people I've not received emails from before so I won't have a specific filter set up for them initially hence the first filter.
Would that work?
I gather then that the next time Thunderbird syncs (checks for email?) it will then delete the email from the server?
If that won't work is there another way to automatically remove email from an IMAP server?
From reading through posts on this forum I see that I may also lose my notification sounds? I currently receive a received email notification for all emails, even those moved to sub folders. (refer https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1155074)
Another hitch in this is that I'm stuck on 52.9.1 because Mozilla removed support for most of the add-ons I use and only half of them are compatible with newer versions of Thunderbird. One that is very critical to me is one that selectively encrypts email for specific contacts using S/MIME certificates. AFAIK this is not natively available in later versions of Thunderbird, and the author states Mozilla has made it impossible for him to maintain the add on.