> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wolfgang Jeltsch
> Sent: Monday, November 29, 2004 11:14 AM
[ Snip ]
> The background of this whole thing is that I want to have
> IMAP folders like Inbox, Sent and Trash which reside on the
> same hierarchy level. If I just let Courier direct mail to
> ~/Maildir and access ~/Maildir with my e-mail client (KMail)
> via IMAP, I have a top level folder Inbox and all other
> folders I create are located below Inbox. This is, of
> course, nonsensical.
While I fully sympathize with Wolfgang's efforts to make something behave in
a way that suits his preferences, I take issue with the idea that folders
below Inbox is "nonsensical".
To me, it is eminently logical: mail comes in to Inbox and fans out to the
otherfolders. Inbox is the logical parent of those folders. Granted, one
of the major advantages of IMAP is the ability to have server-side sorting,
so in many cases I never see the mail item in Inbox ('cos it is moved
directly to another folder), but when something misses the server-side
sorting the Inbox->FinalFolder hierarchy makes sense to me, and is also
entirely consistent with the way my (snail, paper) mail gets handled: mail
arrives in my in box which is at desk-top height, and ends up in the trash
can, which is on the floor. Same hierarchy! <grin>
> Wolfgang
Malc.
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