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Present Spam folder contents from provider side

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TB 140.7.0 32bit, Windows10 64bit

My email provider implements black-box spam processing, with deemed spam redirected into a "Spam" folder at the server end which by default is flushed every 60 days.

To view all the incoming mail, I now not only need to view the account Inbox as TB presents it, I also need to log in to the provider's Web interface to inspect the account's Spam folder. I'd rather view this Spam folder through the TB interface to avoid extra logins.

So I

(1) Created a Spam subfolder under Local Folders using the TB interface. The Properties function reports its path as mailbox://nobody@Local Folders/Spam (the Inbox path is reported as mailbox://nobody@Local Folders/Inbox). These paths are read-only as presented by the Properties function.

(2) Used the Config Editor to set mail.server.default.check_all_folders_for_new to TRUE.

(3) Restarted TB, verified that check_all_folders_for_new was indeed TRUE.

However, while the account's Spam folder was known to contain 2 entries at the server side, the end-user Spam folder was not populated, whether by way of TB restart or manual invocation of the Get All New Messages function.

Any ideas ?

Thanks.

TB 140.7.0 32bit, Windows10 64bit My email provider implements black-box spam processing, with deemed spam redirected into a "Spam" folder at the server end which by default is flushed every 60 days. To view all the incoming mail, I now not only need to view the account Inbox as TB presents it, I also need to log in to the provider's Web interface to inspect the account's Spam folder. I'd rather view this Spam folder through the TB interface to avoid extra logins. So I (1) Created a Spam subfolder under Local Folders using the TB interface. The Properties function reports its path as mailbox://nobody@Local Folders/Spam (the Inbox path is reported as mailbox://nobody@Local Folders/Inbox). These paths are read-only as presented by the Properties function. (2) Used the Config Editor to set mail.server.default.check_all_folders_for_new to TRUE. (3) Restarted TB, verified that check_all_folders_for_new was indeed TRUE. However, while the account's Spam folder was known to contain 2 entries at the server side, the end-user Spam folder was not populated, whether by way of TB restart or manual invocation of the Get All New Messages function. Any ideas ? Thanks.

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Rick
Rick
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The server folder and the folder that you created are not the same. All you should have to do is subscribe to the server folder. Right click on the account name in the folder pane, select "Subscribe", and check the box for the spam folder.

H Br
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Ah, one pesky detail: the account in question is a POP job, not IMAP. So the Subscribe feature isn't offered.

Last November my provider did an IMAP rollout, bottom line was that while I could still send using IMAP, I couldn't receive with it, so the reception side stayed with POP settings. So I guess I'll likely need to revisit that.

One thing though: is the check_all_folders_for_new setting still necessary ?

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