> Hey, just paid another visit to the prototype site. There's a > couple of fundamental things I can't seem to do with the new > templates. > > Firstly I can't create folder with names longer than 8 > characters, the entry box prevents me. (I know the templates > have always suggested there was some 8-character limitation, > but I assumed that is a hangover from FAT days and we have > always ignored it. As far as I can tell IMail has no limit > until you hit the NTFS max filename size - I have some pretty > long folder names. However, I always avoid spaces in folder > names, because although IMAP supports them, the webmail > doesn't seem to like them.) IMail's web messaging service prevents the creation of a folder longer than 8 chars... believe me, I've tried. Yes, you can create a longer one with an IMAP client, and you can also create a longer one by sending yourself mail addressed like "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". So, until IMail changes iwebmsg.exe to allow longer names, we can't allow more than 8 in the folder manager. What we *could* do is allow more than 8 characters, but use a period between them, in effect creating a pseudo-nested folder (see below). > Secondly I can't create folder hierarchies. In the old > templates, to create a sub folder you just specified > 'TopLevelFolder.SecondLevel' to create a folder within > another. Again the new webmail templates seem to prevent that. > > I for example have a 2-3 deep hierarchy of about 500 folders, > most with longer than 8 character names. The Ipswitch > templates and the v1 HumanKind templates work fine with this, > but the v2 templates seem to add limitations! This is an issue we've wrestled with, and I'd appreciate feedback from everyone so we can determine which way to go. The current version does not do the nested folder stuff just because we wanted to keep the folder list simple and understandable for the majority of users. ALL your folders will be displayed on the left, so they'll all be immediately accessible. I agree that with 500 folders, that's going to be a long list... but how many real-world users will have a configuration like that? My guess is that 99% of users will have fewer than 10 folders. While I in no way want to limit IMail's functionality, I also don't want to introduce complexity for users where there is no demand for it. So, let's hear from everyone today... simple, with one level of folders on the left, or a nested hierarchy of folders with the dot-naming convention? PLEASE respond off-list to keep the traffic down, to mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]. Thanks, Ron demo: http://killerwebmail.com:8383 ______________________________________________________________________ The HKSI-IMail Admin List is hosted by........ Humankind Systems, Inc. Questions, Comments or Glowing Praise...... mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Searchable List Archive.... http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] To Manage your Subscription......... http://humankindsystems.com/lists
