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RE: do I have a visitor?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Charles Galpin)
Sun Oct 18 21:21:33 1998
Date: Sun, 18 Oct 1998 21:17:58 -0400
From: Charles Galpin <cgalpin@lighthouse-software.com>
To: Gordon Messmer <redhat-list@redhat.com>
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===== Original Message from Gordon Messmer <redhat-list@redhat.com> at
10/18/98 8:32 pm
>Charles Galpin wrote:
>[snip]
>> I just wanted my mail in a directory other than $HOME. Most IMAP clients
>> don't give you enought control over what files to see - eveything in $HOME
>> is a mail folder to them
>
>This can be set up on the client. Both Netscape and Outlook Express
>have
>the ability to set the IMAP mail folder. I like to set this to
>"mail".
>This way, both pine and imapd use the same folders.
>
I honestly don't remember the details, but this didn't work well for me.
>BTW, I plan on patching imap and pine a bit so that each mbox is
>actually
>a directory containing a file called ".messages" which actually
>contains
>the messages. This will allow for folders that contain messages AND
>other
>folders. (Or something similar in implementation, I haven't decided
>just
>yet) Is anyone interested in this? Elsewise, I'm doing it for my
>machine
>alone.
yes, very much. Nested folders should be supported. Also I don't think it
would be a stretch to make the mail dir configurable.
--
Charles Galpin <cgalpin@lighthouse-software.com>
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