Seth Spitzer wrote:
> Howard M. Stark wrote:
>
>> What is the purpose of the "Local Folders"?
>
>
> when sending mail offline, it's where we keep your unsent messages.
> for news accounts, it's the default place we keep sent, drafts and
> templates.
>
> it's also very handy to have a well known default place for some default
> folders. a lot of the back end code, on failure, will use the sent,
> drafts, templates folders on "Local Folders".
one day, we'll have the time to get fancy enough to not require it
you've got a pop account (which has those folders on disk).
there's a bug on that, I think.
but we've got bigger fish to fry first.
-Seth
