At 3:28 AM +0100 9/21/07, Timothy Murphy wrote:
On Thu 20 Sep 2007, Charles Marcus wrote:
> Incidentally, as far as I can see one has to keep a Local account
> on kmail, as well as an IMAP account,
Dunno why it would be necessary. TBird doesn't have an easy way to lose
the 'Local Folders' - maybe kmail has something similar that you are
referring to? I just keep those collapsed and ignore them.
There appear to be several default folders with kmail,
namely inbox, outbox, sent-mail, wastebin, draughts, templates .
Local folders are an issue entirely local to a mail client and
irrelevant to any IMAP server.
> since eg sent mail goes to ~/Maildir/sent-mail/cur/ .
> I didn't find any kmail setting to change this.
It's a very bad idea for a mail client running on the same host as an
IMAP server to try to access the same mailstore via the filesystem.
Maildir is a fuzzy standard: as defined it ignores a lot of things
that users of the format want, so Maildir++ exists and various
programs that work with Maildir mailstores have made their own
mostly-harmless extensions to the original structure that are not
standardized and may not interoperate.
???
'Special' folders are definable by the client - in TBird, I always use
'Sent', 'Drafts', 'Templates' and 'Trash' (these are the defaults too).
Maybe kmail is different ...
Apparently.
In any case, clients (KMail, Eudora, ChatterEmail, Mulberry, Outlook,
whatever) create any particular folders that they they want to use
for particular purposes by telling the IMAP server to do so, and
there is no well-defined standard for what 'special' folders exist on
an IMAP server or how they are named or used.
I still think you are missing something about how IMAP works...
What exactly?
1. IMAP is not a file server protocol.
2. "What KMail does" is not a definition of any standard.
3. (Only based on your description) KMail does not seem to share much
with common (albeit poorly standardized) IMAP client behavior.
A mailer shouldn't expect to be able to both work directly with a
Maildir mailstore through the filesystem and with an IMAP server that
is accessing the same mailstore.
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Bill Cole
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