On Fri, 21 Nov 2003, felix wrote:
>Hi!
>I've written a document about how qmail, vpopmail and BincIMAP interact.
>It's my first Wiki, so please excuse the imperfect formatting and
>naming. I've put it on the "Life With Binc IMAP" page.

Good, the more the better. This doc clarifies the execution of bincimap-up
and bincimapd, which is something we may want to extract into a seperate
doc, but for now it should remain where it is. :-)

>There is still one question open, and that is how to configure BincIMAP
>so that it exposes the incoming folder as "Inbox" or "INBOX", and also
>allows new mail folders to be created on the same level as Inbox. Can
>anything, apart from a symbolic link, save the day? ;-)

If I understand correctly:

Binc IMAP displays it as INBOX, but you want it to say "Inbox"? Hmm,
allowing that almost certainly sounds like adding a new configuration
option, which is something I only see as a final resort. "Eliminate
options". :-)

People who are used to INBOX won't mind it being displayed as Inbox, I'm
quite certain. And since the special name Inbox is case insensitive, it
would still be perfectly allowed to select INBOX, or to LIST or LSUB to
INBOX.

However, it is usually the client's job to translate the INBOX name into
something that looks more convenient to the user, such as "Innboks" or
"Boite de reception". I wouldn't be surprised if some clients display the
folder as INBOX, even if the server did display it as "Inbox".

If you'd like, I could send you a little patch which shows INBOX as Inbox
for you to test (operator-list.cc changes only), or you could do some
modification yourself and see if it works.

Up to you. :-)

Andy

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Author of Binc IMAP      |  "It is better not to do something
http://www.bincimap.org/ |        than to do it poorly."

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