On Tue, 15 Jul 2003, Andreas Aardal Hanssen wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Jul 2003, Adrian Urquhart wrote:
>
> >When using Pine as the client, I can only see the INBOX, and not any of
> >the existing folders created by Courier (the same is true in KMail). How
> >can I "upgrade" the folders to allow Binc to see them - is it Ok to just
> >add them to the bincimap-subscribed file? Can I leave -uidvalidity and
> >-cache missing? I need to do this programmatically, not helped by the
> >system being 500 miles away...
>
> You are safe to delete bincimap-uidvalidity and bincimap-cache at any
> point, even when the server is running.
>
> You can transform the subscription file from Courier to Binc to allow most
> clients to see their subscribed folders[*], but Pine doesn't respect IMAP
> subscriptions.
>
> Pine doesn't FWIK support LIST, LSUB, SUBSCRIBE and UNSUBSCRIBE, so the
> only way I know to add folders is to edit them in by going to
> setup->config and enabling "hidden config", then adding folders to the
> "incoming folders" section. The format is the same as that of INBOX.
>
> Also, when Pine creates mailboxes, these are not added to the IMAP
> subscription list. Still it's the reference IMAP client. (?)
>
> Andy
>
> [*] Conversion scripts like this are very interesting to the community
> of this project. If you make any scripts, you're welcome to post
> them to this list. :-) I'll add them to the contributions page.
>
>
Well, I'm making progress, in that it works and authenticates with my
own authetication module. So far so good, but testing with a few clients
gives these results:
Pine 4.52 Only the INBOX is visible
Mutt 1.4.1i The opposite behaviour - I can see all my mailboxes and
open them, but INBOX is empty.
KMail 3.1 Works Ok.
Netscape (not sure of version) Works Ok
Outlook 2000 Works Ok.
All this is despite mega fiddling with folder paths and configs in the
various clients. So, what's the text-mode client of choice? Or are my
problems fixable - so long as I can persuade Pine or Mutt to work, I'll
be happy.
-Adrian
