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Vista - Send/Receive on IMAP versus Check Mail and Synchronize This Folder.

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Old 11-18-2007   #1 (permalink)
Don Pellegrino


 
 

Send/Receive on IMAP versus Check Mail and Synchronize This Folder.

IMAP Check Mail:

I am using IMAP mail. When I hit the "Send/Receive" button on the toolbar
the default behavior was for Windows Mail to check every one of my IMAP
folders for new mail. As I have a number of folders this took too long. I
then modified my synchronization settings so that only the Inbox would be
synchronized. This is the behavior I want for a "check mail" operation.

IMAP Synchronize This Folder:

Alternately I sometime want to synchronize a particular folder. Ideally the
GUI would provide me a "Synchronize This Folder" menu item in a context
menu, or some other equivalent and then perform the task immediately. For
this operation it seems that I need to modify my "Synchronization Settings"
and then run "Send/Receive." I then need to modify my "Synchronization
Settings" again to take the folder back off the list. This works but it is
a three step operation.

Can Windows Mail be configured to behave in the two ways I describe above -
or is going through the "Synchronization Settings" the only way to get this
behavior?

Note that my "IMAP Synchronize This Folder" operation would also address
"IMAP Check Mail" as an immediate synchronization could just be performed on
the Inbox. Perhaps only a "Synchronize This Folder" feature is needed?


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