Henry Baragar wrote:
On Thu, 08 Jul 2004 17:26:00 -0600, Daniel Miller
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I now understand this after reading through the maildir++
specification. This leads me to make two suggestions. If possible
it would be great if the documentation that is shipped with binc
specifically spells out that if you plan on having Mozilla
Thunderbird as a supported client then you better change your
bincimap.conf file from Maildir++ to IMAPdir.
If anything, I think that the documentation shipped with Binc should
point specifically to
http://lifewithbincimap.org/index.php/Main/IMAPClientsWithBinc when
discussing IMAP clients. I don't think that the Andy should be
responsible for maintaining accurate information for all IMAP
clients. That task is better done by the user community,
particularly the ones that are using a particular IMAP client in a
production environment.
This seems like a good idea.
Second, I suggest this page
(http://www.bincimap.org/bincimap-imapdir.html)specifically mention
that root level directories are not allowed formaildir++ mail depots.
Maybe, but maybe not... since this might be irrelavent to the end
user (see below) and since Maildir++ is somebody else's creation
(see http://www.inter7.com/courierimap/README.maildirquota.html)
I guess that depends on your definition of end user. For binc I see the
end user being the system administrator who sets up binc. If the system
administrator runs into trouble I think the first place they are going
to turn to is this mailing list. So I was making the suggestion in the
hopes that the system administrator could find the answer without having
to consult this mailing list and take up other people's time.
I'm curious why Maildir++ is the default in the configuration file if it
is someone else's creation and IMAPdir is a creation of the bincimap
project effort. Either way, I was just making suggestions and with your
instructions below I have the answer I was looking for.
Besides using IMAPdir, there two ways to address this in Thunderbird:
1. In "Account Settings", in "Server Settings" click the "Advanced
button".
On the "IMAP" tab set the "IMAP Sever Directory" to "INBOX/". Now,
Thunderbird has no problems creating the "Trash" folder and all the
other folders appear as siblings of "INBOX".
1. In "Account Settings", in "Server Settings", set the "When I delete a
message" to "Remove it immediately"; if this is too drastic, then
change the setting to "Mark it as deleted" and the trashed emails
will
be permanently deleted the next time you command Thunderbird to do
so.
Note that I am only using Thunderbird 0.4 in my lab, but I don't
think that these things have changed since.
Regards,
Henry
Well your instructions show I was completely wrong. This is exactly
what I was looking for. I've added these instructions to the life with
bincimap wiki. If anyone would like to polish what I've added, the
specific page can be found at:
http://lifewithbincimap.org/index.php/Main/ThunderbirdFolderSetup.
Thanks!
Dan
