Mail setup: auto-folder subscription

Thunderbird logoSo, in between the (by now) terribly outdated (two holidays ago by now :s) Tenerife epic, an actual current update!

I’m right now in Darmstadt, at CASED for a month. I bravely decided to take the new computer I got here and set it up with the new ubuntu. Plenty of woes so far (why on earth does the external monitor function out-of-the-box on the live USB stick, but it’s a royal PITA to get it working once installed.

For that matter, since when does Ubuntu forget to let me boot into my windows? I must have done something wrong with the install — but it used to be easy, now it’s hard to figure out?!

Le anyway, mail clients. Trusty old evolution somehow didn’t show all my regular folders. Okay, thunderbird then. The same damn folders missing again – wtf?

Okay, turns out to be a matter of “subscribing” to the desired folders. Well, how about all of them, by default? Apparently, neither client did that out of the box. But it fixes the issue in both… (thunderbird: file > subscribe ; evolution: Folders > subscribe). Weird, good to remember.

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