[Users] emails in spam folders are not downloaded

[Colin Leroy-Mira]

On Mon, 25 Mar 2019 12:08:42 +0530, Cyaniventer
<cyaniventer at riseup.net> wrote:

> I am using Claws Mail (version 3.17.3) and it doesn't download emails
> in spam folder, same with Thunderbird. 
> 
> Is this normal behaviour or someissue with my email provider?

By default, Claws-Mail doesn't download IMAP messages bodies anywhere,
unless

- a filtering or processing rule depends on the message body
- you select "Synchronise for offline use" in the message folder's
  properties

The second one will probably achieve what you are looking for.
Although, if:

> My email provider deletes spam after 7 days and I don't want to lose
> messages because of false positives.

The deletion is going to remove local copies of messages too. Maybe you
want to add a filter rule to move any message in your provider's Spam
folder to another, normal folder of your choice.

-- 
Colin