On Thu, 13 May 2004 23:17:29 -0700 (Pacific Standard Time) Brendan Barnwell <[EMAIL 
PROTECTED]> wrote:

BB> How can I tell Mahogany that I want to browse the mail in this
BB> file as if it were a server?

 You should try "Folder|Import file folders...".

BB> I tried creating a new "local mailbox" folder
BB> in the folder tree, setting the filename to the exported mailbox, but
BB> that seemed to have no effect.  What I want to do is be able to browse
BB> the messages I have exported EXACTLY as I would browse them on
BB> the remote server.

 This risks to be impossible without some tweaking as long as you use the
default (MBOX) format because many IMAP servers support mailboxes which can
contain both messages and mailboxes. In the file system, this is
impossible: files can't contain other files. So if you have "folder" and
"folder/subfolder" on server, the migrate tool create the following
locally:

- directory "folder"
- file/mailbox "folder/subfolder" with the messages of subfolder
- file "folder.messages" with the messages of folder itself

BB> Is there any way to update my local copy rather than re-dumping
BB> everything?

 Unless you delete the messages from the server, no. Be warned that
although moving (i.e. migrating and then clearing) and then migrating again
should work, I did *not* try it myself so please do make backup of all your
mail before trying it.

BB> More generally, I still don't really understand what in the world
BB> it means to do "create folder" and then try to create a local mailbox.  As
BB> far as I can tell, no actual file is created anywhere -- certainly not in
BB> the directory where I said it SHOULD create the file.  What does the
BB> "local mailbox" option actually DO?

 Hmm, it definitely should be created. If it is not created anywhere, it is
a bug :-(

BB> Also, the help window for Mahogany is still modal -- it won't let
BB> me look back at the main Mahogany window.  I reported this bug
BB> earlier but it is still present.

 Sorry, under which platform does this happen?
VZ



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