[MlMt] Inbox vs All Messages

[Robert Brenstein]

> I haven't checked everything in the manual but this is perhaps what 
> you are referring to
>
>> The first mailbox in the mailbox outline, “All Messages”, 
>> contains all messages in your
>> IMAP account(s) except those in the designated mailboxes for deleted 
>> messages or
>> messages marked as junk.

Yes, indeed, that was what I was referring to.

> My interpretation of this is that All Messages contains all messages 
> in the IMAP account(s) except deleted and junk (as it says in the 
> manual). In other words, if you only have one account (as an example) 
> and have created N number of mailboxes for that mail account then All 
> Messages will contain the messages stored in those mailboxes also. 
> Inbox will only contain the messages stored in the designated incoming 
> mailbox.

That seems to be generally true. However, one of my accounts has an 
Inbox with several submailboxes (subinboxes), where some incoming mails 
are diverted by the rules on the server. The messages in those 
submailboxes are not shown in All Messages and not in Inbox. I can see 
them only when selecting the Source.

While investigating this, I noticed that

- I can designate any mailbox on the server as one of the standard types 
except as inbox.
- Since Inbox is not in the list of mailbox types, I can’t see if a 
given mailbox has no type or is Inbox.

Robert