[Users] emails in spam folders are not downloaded

[Cyaniventer]

On Mon, 25 Mar 2019 09:54:59 +0100
Colin Leroy-Mira <colin at colino.net> wrote:

> 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.
>

I use POP to download emails and not IMAP. 

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