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Bug 767658 - Allow users to store emails in local folders
Allow users to store emails in local folders
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: geary
Classification: Other
Component: client+engine
master
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: Geary Maintainers
Geary Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2016-06-14 15:12 UTC by Greg
Modified: 2021-07-05 13:24 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Description Greg 2016-06-14 15:12:17 UTC 
My email provider sets a fairly small quota for how much disk space I can use. With Thunderbird, I also worked around the problem by creating a local folder within Thunderbird and I could transfer email there.

If Geary does not allow local folder creation, is there some other solution for users who have lots of space on local drive but little space on the email server?
Comment 1 Michael Gratton 2016-06-15 06:57:53 UTC 
Not at the moment, no. While Geary does cache your mail locally, it should be considered just that for the moment - a cache.

I won't have time to work on this any time soon, however some support for this would be good to have, so patches are welcome.
Comment 2 Michael Gratton 2016-06-15 06:58:16 UTC 
See also Bug 713832.
Comment 3 GNOME Infrastructure Team 2021-07-05 13:24:07 UTC 
GNOME is going to shut down bugzilla.gnome.org in favor of gitlab.gnome.org.
As part of that, we are mass-closing older open tickets in bugzilla.gnome.org
which have not seen updates for a longer time (resources are unfortunately
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Thank you for your understanding and your help.