Re: [Sheflug] mailbox format

[Alan Dawson <aland [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Quoting Gareth <gareth [at] bim7.com>:

> 
> I guess I'm happy to keeping using UW-IMAP, the only limitation I see is
> that it doesn't seem to support folders in folders; as each folder is a
> flat file. I think I can handle this.
> 

Using UW-IMAP server and the IMP webmail IMAP client I can create subfolders.

There are two types of folder .. folders and mailboxes

http://www.washington.edu/imap/IMAP-FAQs/index.html#1.11  explains it


> I found a file '/usr/share/doc/imap-2001a/CONFIG' that says...
> 
> <quote>
> Example 2: suppose you want to change c-client's idea of the
> user's mailbox directory to be the "mail" subdirectory of the user's
> home directory instead of the user's home directory.  You will want to
> change variable mailsubdir, changing the line that reads:
> 


I think the UW-IMAP server defaults to putting sub folders in the $HOME\mail  
at least mine does ?

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