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. -- f.anthony.n.finch <[email protected]> http://dotat.at/ GERMAN BIGHT HUMBER: SOUTHWEST 5 TO 7. MODERATE OR ROUGH. SQUALLY SHOWERS. MODERATE OR GOOD.
