On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 04:10:40PM -0400, Brendan Cully wrote:
> On Monday, 25 October 1999 at 15:39, Chris Green wrote:
> > I'm somewhat confused by the way one is supposed to navigate
> > folders/directories on an IMAP server. The mutt version I'm running
> > here (0.96i) seems slightly different from the other version I'm
> > trying (1.1i) but both have now confused me thoroughly.
> >
> > Is there any way to go straight to an IMAP folder directory as opposed
> > to opening a specific mailbox? If I just specify the IMAP server name
> > as "{mailandnews.co.uk}" I get the inbox.
>
> Reading this and your other message I have an idea what is going on. Try
> setting $folder to "{mailandnews.co.uk}" in your muttrc. Currently it's
> defaulting to ~/Mail.
>
OK, yes, you're right. It really harks back to my problem of how to
handle multiple IMAP accounts, there's no really simple way of doing
it using mutt. However I suppose the 'mutt way' would be to use some
hooks and such to change the folder as I switch from using mutt
locally to using it on the remote IMAP server. Maybe just some macros
to change 'user profile' would do what I want.
> > 2 IMAP Action.
> > 3 IMAP Anne
> > 4 IMAP Anne.
> > [etc.]
> >
> > If I open 'Action' I get the mail therein (as one would expect) but if
> > I open 'Action.' I get a folder list at the level containing 'Action.',
> > not the contents of 'Action.', is this a bug in the server or a bug in
> > mutt, or neither?
>
> Neither. It's a clunky interface resulting from the invalid assumption
> that usually folders either contain messages or subfolders but not both.
> Nice solutions have been proposed, but I haven't built them yet and
> neither has anyone else. :(
>
OK, I just wondered if the IMAP server was doing strange things. It's
a bit odd anyway in that the IMAP server supports hierarchical folders
but the Web interface to it doesn't so one can only create and
navigate a hierarchy when using it remotely.
What I'm really after is a proper implementation of using IMAP in
'disconnected' mode, I've yet to find *any* MUA that can do this
well yet.
> I'm currently trying to rethink the architecture and fix bugs. After a
> bit of that, I may tackle the browser again...
Thanks for all the work on IMAP and for answering my (often silly)
questions.
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