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The only time I've ever lost mail was while trying to move a bunch of messages in Postbox (shares Thunderbird's backend). Wasn't even moving between servers-- this was just a folder-to-folder move.

Always copy, verify that the messages really are at the destination, then delete. I don't know why this isn't what Thunderbird does on its own when you move mail, but it isn't.

>I've had it lose messages on me, deleting them from the source before they're successfully written to the destination.

Copy folders then?

Am I the only one still using Evolution? I think its IMAP implementation is a lot better than Thunderbird's. I think this could be due to the fact that Evolution was initially written by people experienced in writing mail _servers_ but at this point I'm not sure how much of Evolution 1.0 code survives in 3.0.

The trick here is to not close the program while the move is taking place (or so I've found). Also using copy over move is a bit better. Stupid bug though, I know :p.