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* <b>Usernames</b> (Fields 9, 14, 19): "email" for the whole email address, "localpart" for the part of the email address before the "@" (e.g. fred in fred@foo.com), or "prompt (D1234543)" to get the client to prompt, giving the example username "D1234543". | * <b>Usernames</b> (Fields 9, 14, 19): "email" for the whole email address, "localpart" for the part of the email address before the "@" (e.g. fred in fred@foo.com), or "prompt (D1234543)" to get the client to prompt, giving the example username "D1234543". | ||
* <b>Enable URL</b> (Fields 10, 15): Some providers do not provide IMAP or POP service by default, but require it to be enabled via a web UI. Paste the URL that a logged-in user would use into this field, and the application can prompt the user to visit it. | * <b>Enable URL</b> (Fields 10, 15): Some providers do not provide IMAP or POP service by default, but require it to be enabled via a web UI. Paste the URL that a logged-in user would use into this field, and the application can prompt the user to visit it. | ||
* <b>Imap options</b> (Fields 23- | * <b>Imap options</b> (Fields 23-27): | ||
**Sent : Use to store your sent messages | ** special folders (Fields 23-26): for some imap account, it is necessary to tell Thunderbird what are the names of the special folders, because if it is not done, Thundebird will use and create is own specials folders. So you should défine the following folders if their name are differents from the defaults names: | ||
**Trash : Use to store your deleted messages | ***Sent : Use to store your sent messages | ||
**Junk : Use to store your junk messages | ***Trash : Use to store your deleted messages | ||
**Drafts : Use to store your drafts messages | ***Junk : Use to store your junk messages | ||
***Drafts : Use to store your drafts messages | |||
** Root folder (Field 27): in order to avoid that Thunderbird show folders as sub-folders of the inbox, it is necessary to tell it the name of the imap server directory. | |||
=== Gathering data === | === Gathering data === | ||