Question about nested folders..
Can uw Imap (c-client) create nested folders? How do I do this? I read, somewhere, that this required using the .mbx format for mailboxes. So I recompiled imapd changing the default format to mbx. After some unpleasant experiences trying to get tmail to work with sendmail (can't figure out how to do it in sendmail.mc so did it directly in sendmail.cf - and, tmail has to be in /usr/bin (or the like) and can't be in /home/USER/..) Anyway, after doing all this, and successfully sending mail into sendmail which gets deposited in an INBOX in the user's directory, I still can get my client to create sub-folders that aren't at the top level. Is this possible? Thanks for your help - Yossie -- -- For information about this mailing list, and its archives, see: http://www.washington.edu/imap/c-client-list.html --
followup on email about nested directories..
What I need to do, and am hoping that uw imap will do, is create subfolders within folders. So, for example, I could create folder X that contains messages and then put folder Y into it. I realize that both mbox and mbx formats are flat files and thus it seems UNLIKELY that this can be done. However, I am asking, IS THERE A WAY that I can do this with ANY uw imap supported options? THANKS - Joseph -- -- For information about this mailing list, and its archives, see: http://www.washington.edu/imap/c-client-list.html --
Re: followup on email about nested directories..
In order to create mailboxes within a mailbox, you need to use a mailbox format which supports this dual-use. mbx format is not such a format; nor is traditional UNIX mailbox format. The dual-use mailbox formats supported in the distribution version of c-client are mh, mx, and news. Personally, I think that dual-use is a bad idea from a user interface point of view, since that means that for a name you have to have a separate open as mailbox and open as directory operation. But this seems to be a matter of religion. -- Mark -- http://staff.washington.edu/mrc Science does not emerge from voting, party politics, or public debate. Si vis pacem, para bellum.
Re: followup on email about nested directories..
Mark Crispin wrote: In order to create mailboxes within a mailbox, you need to use a mailbox format which supports this dual-use. mbx format is not such a format; nor is traditional UNIX mailbox format. That is doable. Just deside on a special mailbox name to be the folders 'own' mailbox, let just call it mbox0 for now. If You try to access a folder as a mailbox, open folder/mbox0. If You try to access a mbox as a folder, just report it as empty. If someone try to save to a folder that's an mbox, create an temp folder. Move the mbox ther as tmpfolder/mbox0, move tmpfolder to the original mbox name, then proceed with the save. Will likly break other tools, but only if people actuly *us* the feature. Personally, I think that dual-use is a bad idea from a user interface point of view, since that means that for a name you have to have a separate open as mailbox and open as directory operation. The ui isue is solwed long time ago. Standard 'treeview' with a + or arrow to expand a node, and some icon to select it. But this seems to be a matter of religion. Yeha, but I actuly have found a use for it. I sort mail in differnt folder, and for each folder mail older than one year in one folder for each year. Would clean up my folderlisting *allot* to make thes yearly folders subfolders to 'ther' mailbox. While keeping them in the same spot. /LaH
Re: followup on email about nested directories..
On Thu, 17 Mar 2005, Mark Crispin wrote: In order to create mailboxes within a mailbox, you need to use a mailbox format which supports this dual-use. mbx format is not such a format; nor is traditional UNIX mailbox format. The dual-use mailbox formats supported in the distribution version of c-client are mh, mx, and news. Additionaly to this, you are not very supportive of the mh format, so it can be considered half-supported (can I say it that way). AFAIK Maildir supports what you want, there are add-on patches available, f.ex. here [1]. It seems to be actively maintained However I don't know how well it works. *t [1] http://www.math.washington.edu/~chappa/pine/info/maildir.html -- --- Tomas Pospisek http://sourcepole.com - Linux Open Source Solutions ---
