Import from desktop: folder settings are not imported

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Thunderbird for Android – Open Source Email App for Android (fka K-9 Mail)

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Import from desktop: folder settings are not imported #8499

Closed Iey4iej3 closed 2 weeks ago

Iey4iej3 commented 2 weeks ago

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App

Thunderbird for Android

App version

8.0

Where did you get the app from?

F-Droid

Android version

Android 14 (LineageOS 21)

Device model

No response

Steps to reproduce

Import from Thunderbird Desktop (Linux)
Check folder settings

Expected behavior

Folder settings are correctly imported

Actual behavior

For example, for me, the customized folder for "Archives" is not correctly imported (it is "Automatic" there).

Logs

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fuste76 commented 2 weeks ago

I had to manually config nearly 20 subfolders of "Archive" to get syncronized during manually refresh (i don't use push mail). It was a bit of work. I had expected, that the migration of all setting from Thunderbird via QR-Code would transfer also folder settings.

Iey4iej3 commented 2 weeks ago

(i don't use push mail)

For push mails, you have to enable them one by one as well: by default, it is disabled for every folder.

kewisch commented 2 weeks ago

There is only so much space in a QR code, so we've limited the import to some basic information. There are some ideas on how we could do this better in the future (e.g. something like Mozilla Sync, where you can simply keep all your settings in sync), but this is outside of scope for the QR code import.

We're going to update https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/thunderbird-android-import soon with the limitations.