Re: fluke: mailinglist shows as a newsgroup

On 3 May 2014, Jim Nagel <mpro@...> wrote:

> I wanted to rename the folder containing one of my mailinglists (the
> Iyonix one, as it happens).
>
> The usual menu option "Rename ..." is greyed out because this "group"
> is a mailinglist.
>
> So I created a new folder with the new name.  Then went to the
> "Configure > Mailinglist" dialogue, selected the Iyonix entry, chose
> Edit, and for Folder selected my new one from the dropdown list.  The
> new folder is now a mailinglist.
>    (I will need to make the relevant adjustment in "Configure >
> Filtering rules".)
>
> So far so good.

Why not just change the 'Name' in the Configure > Mailinglist > Edit...
dialogue? The underlying 'Folder' remains the same, but the name which
you see in the Groups window changes. Filters need not be altered.

> The old mailinglist folder I would have expected* to become an
> ordinary folder.  But, strangely, it appears in my "Main groups" list
> now among NEWSGROUPs, with the newsgroup icon (and with "Rename" still
> greyed).
>
> I can't work out why it has become a newsgroup.  How do I turn it back
> into an ordinary folder?

No idea. If it's empty you could delete it. If not, you could export its
contents to the appropriate folder.

Tony



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