[95464] in RedHat Linux List
RE: do I have a visitor?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chuck Mead)
Sun Oct 18 21:25:43 1998
Date: Sun, 18 Oct 1998 21:23:54 -0400 (EWT)
From: Chuck Mead <chuck@moongroup.com>
To: Gordon Messmer <redhat-list@redhat.com>
In-Reply-To: <199810190121.VAA07035@smtp3.erols.com>
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On Sun, 18 Oct 1998, Charles Galpin wrote:
> ===== 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.
I've been following your comments about this for a while Charles and
I don't see the problem. I've done IMAP to Linux folders in $home
with Netscape (Linux and Win95), Pine, Outlook 98, and Outlook
Express. It's never been a problem. Pine in particular makes it
easy!
> >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.
Nested folders would be nice with Pine but they're already supported
with Mickeysoft stuff!
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