On Wed, 13 May 2009, Benjamin Reed wrote:
>
> How about its complete disregard for IMAP subscriptions?

To be fair, IMAP subscriptions are a misfeature. They were intended for
netnews-over-IMAP support, not for mail.

> My mail backup scripts automatically archive old mail into mailboxes
> that I don't subscribe to by default, so I can still hook back up to
> them and search them if need be.  *Very* old stuff is in a subdirectory
> and gzipped.
>
> Guess which mail client scans EVERY file in your IMAP root, regardless
> of subscription, including trying to read .gz files?  C'mon, guess!

That's UW-IMAP hate, or perhaps your fault for putting non-mail in an IMAP
tree.

Tony.
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