On Thu, 6 Oct 2016, Steffen Nurpmeso steffen-at-sdaoden.eu |s-nail| wrote:
>
> Yes, that special treatment of *folder* for IMAP has to go, if you
> have set it to a Maildir or directory with MBOXes then this
> doesn't override $MAIL and "automatically `cd's to *folder*", too.
> Stephen's idea was that of introducing a new *inbox* variable,
> which overrides $MAIL if set, and which it is that will be opened
> upon startup / `account' switch.  I think we will go that route.

I keep coming back to the fact that mailx has been working just fine 
with this imap account for the past ten years or so.  I agree that 
having to replace Mail/ (or whatever trails the servername) with INBOX 
in the code looks hacky (and I don't know how Gunnar discovered that it 
was the solution).  But couldn't s-nail do what mailx does just for the 
sake of backward compatibility, as well as implementing the new more 
rational scheme?

Stephen Isard

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