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Re: IMAP MUA and filtering



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A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...

> On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 08:25:28PM +1100, Brian May wrote:
> > My only dislike of the above is courier-imap. It insists that all
> > folders appear below "INBOX" (eg. "INBOX.trash") which in turn looks
> > messy and prevents using a hierarchy for your own folders.
>
> Yeah, I agree, it's a bit dumb.

I think it's less "it's a dumb IMAP server" and more "it's a dumb email
client that doesn't let you set your mailbox path" (netscape calls it the
"mail server directory").

Or the user does't realize such things are possible :)

> The other thing with courier is that, due to the way it's laid out, I
> imagine that it'd be a bastard to get anything like FHS compliance. The
> way it installs itself offends my sense of aesthetics.

Compiling it from the source distribution does that.  The Debian package
is fairly FHS compliant (I'm using courier-imap-1.2 from unstable,
compiled many moons ago on a potato system).

> Other than that, it seems pretty stable though.

Let's put it this way:  It's light-years ahead of the competition (UofW
IMAP, in this case).

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