Re: serious bug. Evolution and Microsoft mentality.
On Thu, 10 Jan 2002, Erik Steffl wrote:
> Tomas Pospisek's Mail Lists wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, Mark Brown wrote:
> >
> > > On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 02:36:01PM +0100, tpo2@sourcepole.ch wrote:
> > >
> > > > IMO IMAP is still a PITA, AFAIK the only well and out of the box
> > > > interoperating combination of MUA and IMAPd is pine together with
> > > > uw-imapd which is about as configurable as your sunglasses. With other
> > > > Linux combinations you'll have to go fiddling with Prefix&|View =
> > > > INBOX. | INBOX* | INBOX.% | INBOX etc.
> > >
> > > Most things (certainly mutt and kmail, I can't think of anything else I
> > > tried that gave me problems) interoperate quite happily with both UW
> > > IMAP and Courier IMAP. I can't think off-hand of a client that wouldn't
> > > play with UW IMAP.
> >
> > I have yet to find out how to be able to see my inbox as well as all its
> > subfolders (that's how it's set up on cyrus) from home.
>
> I am not sure if uw-imap supports anything else but mbox format by
^^^^^^^
Um a bit further down in my original posting I wrote:
* ... yes, the problem is namespacing and that allthough there's a
* standard it seems that either client (pine) or server cyrus 1.5.x from
^^^^^
* debian seem to be unable to get things straight between them.
> default and with mbox you cannot have folders that contain message and
> subfolders (it's one or another). so there's no such thing as inbox and
> its subfolders.
>
> if you're using maildir and it doesn't work properly then I don't
> know, haven't tried uw-imap with maildir...
for cyrus INBOX seems to be the root directory. Incoming mail ends up in
INBOX. Subdirs are created within INBOX.
It might be that I didn't get cyrus the config right but AFAIK it's the
default setup. But IMHO one should not be required to dig RFCs in depth to
be able to use a mailclient.
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