On Fri, May 05, 2000 at 02:08:30PM -0400, Brendan Cully wrote:
> >
> > I can hit ' ' when browsing to show the mail index where a folder has
> > both mail and sub-folders in it.
>
> there are two operations for folders which have mail and
> subfolders. <enter> selects a subfolder, <space> goes to the message
> index. This was done because previously such folders were listed twice
> (once for messages and once for subfolders), and people _hated_ that.
>
Should the inbox appear as both INBOX and INBOX. then as the other
folders don't?
> > Since Courier IMAP uses it's INBOX both as its default mailbox and as
> > the root for its sub-folder hierarchy I'm just about bound to have at
> > least one folder which has both mail and folders in it.
> >
> > The really frustrating thing is that there's no way to *browse* the
> > IMAP folders when 'set folder=' points to my local mail.
>
> well, there is - you can press tab instead of enter when you do 'c'
> {host}INBOX. I'm not sure that works until you've established a
> connection with the server, though.
>
Aha, I'd forgotten about TAB (or maybe I never knew), I'll go and have
a play....
You're right - one has to actually connect to the IMAP server (with,
for example 'c' '{x-1.net:50143}INBOX.' before the TAB will work.
Ah even more ha! *That's* how I got messed up before, no wonder I
couldn't repeat it.
There is a problem, once there one is stuck on the IMAP server and I
can't see a way to get back to browsing the local folders. Any 'c'
command given after having used TAB automatically prompts with
'{x-1.net:50143}INBOX!', the ! doesn't help either. If I do a 'c' and
then erase the '{x-1.net:50143}INBOX!' prompt and enter just '!' I get
'/postbox/chris is not a directory', quite right, it's my local inbox.
The only way I can get back to local folders is by entering one
explicitly - thus entering 'c' '/postbox' and selecting the 'chris'
mbox seems to unscramble things.
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