On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, Mark Brown wrote: > On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 02:36:01PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > IMO IMAP is still a PITA, AFAIK the only well and out of the box > > interoperating combination of MUA and IMAPd is pine together with > > uw-imapd which is about as configurable as your sunglasses. With other > > Linux combinations you'll have to go fiddling with Prefix&|View = > > INBOX. | INBOX* | INBOX.% | INBOX etc. > > Most things (certainly mutt and kmail, I can't think of anything else I > tried that gave me problems) interoperate quite happily with both UW > IMAP and Courier IMAP. I can't think off-hand of a client that wouldn't > play with UW IMAP.
I have yet to find out how to be able to see my inbox as well as all its subfolders (that's how it's set up on cyrus) from home. > MUAs that don't interoperate happily with both could probably be > considered buggy no ... > - the main problem is likely to be namespacing and there's standard ways > for the server to inform the client about the namespaces it uses. ... yes, the problem is namespacing and that allthough there's a standard it seems that either client (pine) or server cyrus 1.5.x from debian seem to be unable to get things straight between them. *t ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tomas Pospisek SourcePole - Linux & Open Source Solutions http://sourcepole.ch Elestastrasse 18, 7310 Bad Ragaz, Switzerland Tel: +41 (81) 330 77 11 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------