[Tools-discuss] Re: IMAP help

[Robert Sparks <[e-mail]>]

If you've managed to connect, you subscribe to lists using the Subscribe 
context menu item here. (Right click the top level account in the menu).

That's thunderbird specific. Other mail apps expose this different ways. 
It's on the todo list to build better general documentation for this and 
make it easy to find.

RjS

On 9/1/25 5:45 PM, Rob Sayre wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I don't subscribe to most lists I participate in, and use the reply 
> link in the web archive. But I gather this is kind of annoying for 
> threading in some clients that other people use. I don't care 
> while I read, as my email is just GMail slop with 
> hundreds-of-thousands of unread messages.
>
> I filed this issue:
> https://github.com/ietf-tools/mailarchive/issues/3631
>
> about the web mailto: threading.
>
> But I thought I would try to get Thunderbird IMAP working only for 
> IETF lists, as a matter of courtesy, but have so far failed to do so.
>
> Step #1:
>
> My datatracker password was so old it no longer met complexity 
> requirements. It was in a password manager at least, so I updated 
> that. Successful.
>
> Step #2:
>
> Configure Thunderbird to check imap.ietf.org <http://imap.ietf.org>
>
> So, this does connect, but I don't get any folders representing 
> mailing lists and such. Am I missing something? Or is there a 
> setup/help page? I found RFC 7017 and the brief mention of IMAP on 
> https://www.ietf.org/participate/lists/.
>
> thanks,
> Rob