Disclaimer: The problems described here may be server-side issues, so I'll try to limit myself to the problems that are common to at least two IMAP servers, hoping that the problems are not server-side. The IMAP servers that I use are: Courier, Axigen and GMail (two of them at work and two at home). I also use Exchange sometimes, but I'll let that beast aside this time. 1) I think there is only one (almost reliable) way to tell if there is new mail in all IMAP sub-directories in Balsa and that is to keep all of them opened and make sure they are not closed after a period of inactivity. I say "almost reliable" because sometimes there's new mail in the Inbox and Balsa can't tell. But in general, it's strange how the periodic check for new mail seems to traverse all the sub-directories on the IMAP servers, but I only see unread mail in the sub-directories that are open (those are the only ones that get bold when new mail arrives in them). 2) When I use more than one IMAP account I expect to be able to define separate "Drafts", "Sent" and "Trash" sub-folders for each of them. Currently, there's only one "Draft" mailbox, one "Sent" mailbox and one "Trash" mailbox per Balsa instance. 3) I can't make Balsa display threads on all IMAP servers, it only works with Courier. I guess the others don't implement server-side threads, but a nice IMAP client should manage threads even when there is no support on the server. 4) Public Folders are a PITA. I don't use them anymore with Courier, but I remember I had some issues which I have raised here in the past. On Axigen I have no idea how to access them, they don't appear in the list even if I uncheck the "Subscribed folders only" setting (which seems to work for the other sub-directories). But they work with other IMAP clients: Thunderbird, Evolution, Sylpheed etc. Thanks for the attention, -- mișu
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