[MlMt] Limiting Mailbox Scope to Current Account

[Steven M. Bellovin]

Really?  The standard iOS mail client lets you -- when you select 'Move' 
and
get the folder list, there's a button labeled 'Accounts' in the upper 
left.
Select one, and then the folder within it.

That's probably a better approach than a global option, since by default 
it
scope-limits the move but it's easy to override -- and know which 
account
you're moving to -- as necessary.

On 17 Apr 2016, at 11:57, Dave Smith wrote:

> Honestly, I was shocked to discover it was even possible, for messages 
> to
> be moved to another email account. Never seen a client with that 
> ability on
> any platform.
>
> Dave Smith, PE
> @devunwired
> On Apr 17, 2016 9:55 AM, "Karl Erik Jessen" <karl.erik at jessens.org> 
> wrote:
>
>> +1 for the ability to restrict moving messages to only inside account
>>
>> FWIW:
>> In mailclients for iOS it seems to be the normal behavior only to 
>> move
>> messages *inside* accounts. I have tried between 5 or 10 and never 
>> seen
>> the possibility to move messages between accounts.
>>
>> --
>> Karl Erik Jessen
>> Farum DK
>>
>> On 16 Apr 2016, at 14:36, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:
>>
>> On 14 Apr 2016, at 23:14, Dave Smith wrote:
>>
>> I have four email accounts set up in MailMate (all Gmail), and many 
>> of
>> them contain labels with the same or similar names. I've noticed that 
>> when
>> I use the Move to Mailbox… feature, it allows me to move an email 
>> message
>> to *ANY* mailbox/label…even if that label is in a different 
>> account. I
>> find this confusing and I'm constantly adding messages to the wrong 
>> place.
>> Is there a way to limit the scope of this feature to only allow 
>> messages to
>> be moved into mailboxes associated with that account source?
>>
>> There's no way to do that, but it does make a lot of sense. Maybe 
>> even as
>> default behavior (and an option to change it). I'll note it. Thanks.
>>
>> --
>> Benny
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