imap package ignores MH style email folders (potato)
With mh style (directory) folders in ~/Mail, I tried several imap mail
user-agents, imp, postilion, and mutt, requesting (if needed)
the folders directory "Mail/", but all these imap-aware
user-agents responded essentially,
"0 Messages"
then if I look for folders, I see all the following as folders
(that is, every file is treated as a folder, which is mbox folder style)
context
inbox/.xmhcache
inbox/1 #an actual singular email message
Here is a listing of all files in ~/Mail,
files originally created for/using the "mh" mail-user agent "exmh",
./:
.folders
context
./drafts: #empty directory
./inbox:
.xmhcache
1
Perhaps I need another file in this ~/Mail directory for imap
to recognize mh folders.
My ~/.mh_profile file mentioned
in a University of Washington imap tar file's FAQ
contains the lines,
Path: Mail
draft-folder: drafts
unseen-sequence: unseen
That UW FAQ also mentioned referring
to mh mailboxes thru #mhinbox and #mh/, though my feeble attempts
interpreting/trying these possibilities failed.
Do I need to use any of these oddities?
Imap mail user-agents would, however, correctly recognize all mail
when I created the following file with four email messages,
~/mbox
I run imap package version 4.7c-1.
Imap's binary imapd contains the string "mhdriver", hinting mh support.
And the imap package file /usr/share/doc/imap/bugs.txt.gz
contains the line,
"Supported local file formats: mbx, mh, mmdf, mtx, mx, news,
phile, tenex, unix"
So, again, the imap package supposedly supports mh style folders.
But the imap package only mentions "mh" folders
in the above bugs.txt.gz file and in the tmail manual page,
so the imap package's brief mention of "mh" gives no hints
on manually configuring/forcing imap for mh style folders.
Do you have any idea how I can use MH style folders
with the imap potato package?
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jameson@coost.com http://www.coost.com
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