Hello Chris Green, On Tuesday, June 14, 2005, you wrote: >>> Is there an easy/quick way to subscribe to lots of mail folders in >>> squirrel mail?
>>> I have a mail archive which has something over 3000 mailboxes and >>> folders in it so subscribing using the default mechanism in >>> squirrelmail would be a bit laborious. >> Click Folders, in the subscription box, click on the folders you >> want to subscribe, hold down the ctrl key to click on multiples, or >> if you want to subscribe to them all in the box, select the top >> folder, hold the shift key, then click the bottom folder. Then hit >> subscribe. > Well that appeared to work but the folders don't appear in the > folder list in the mail viewing window. It also makes everything run > like treacle even when the dovecot server is on the same machine as > I'm running the MUA. After doing this eveything seems decidedly > broken and odd. How many folders? Do you have it set to display the count of new mail on all folders? Did you, I know an obvious silly question, hit the refresh button? What about logging out of SM and back in again? >>> As an aside the SUBSCRIBE/UNSUBSCRIBE commands aren't supposed to >>> be used for what a lot of MUAs seem to think they're for. As a >>> general rule as I understand it *all* mailboxes should be visible. >>> The IMAP RFC implies (but doesn't state explicitly) that SUBSCRIBE >>> is really for use with newsgroups. At least mutt (for example) >>> allows you to toggle the 'wrong' use of SUBSCRIBE on and off. >> I'm always curious about how people interpret RFCs as there is >> often different understandings of it. How did you come to this >> understanding of it? Can you provide references? Looking at the >> reference, they use #news as an example. #news is a namespaced >> folder I believe. They could just have easily used: > I discussed it in the comp.mail.imap newsgroup with people who know > the IMAP RFC (and what was intended by it) much better than I do. So they said it was intended for newsgroup use? >> A001 SUBSCRIBE #shared.support >> >> Or just plain old folders... >> >> A002 SUBSCRIBE support >> >> I don't really see where it says it's for newsgroups. It does state >> the following... > I said is wasn't explicit, it's the use only of news as an example > that leads many people to this conclusion. Sure, the example would have been better if they'd not used a namespaced folder as it might cause confusion. >> I'm also curious as to how you understood that /all/ folders should >> be shown? As far as I understand it, that's up to client >> implementation which I believe is not defined in RFC3501, just the >> usage of the commands, the data structures, and the likes. As I >> said though, I've not re-read the whole RFC in a while, so I might >> be missing something. > ... but *nowhere* does it say that unsubscribed mail folders should > become invisible does it? It just says that subscribed folders are > listed by LSUB and all folders are listed by LIST. Sure, it also doesn't say that subscribed folders must be shown either ;) > OK, clients can do what they like but to my mind defaulting to a > situation where you can't see most of your mail is a very user > unfriendly approach. What mutt does seems reasonably sensible to me, > it defaults to showing all folders and you can toggle to the other > (to me broken) approach. Sure, which is probably one of the reasons that the development cvs version has code that allows you to show all folders regardless of subscription status ;) -- Jonathan Angliss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477&alloc_id=16492&op=click -- squirrelmail-users mailing list Posting Guidelines: http://squirrelmail.org/wiki/wiki.php?MailingListPostingGuidelines List Address: [email protected] List Archives: http://news.gmane.org/thread.php?group=gmane.mail.squirrelmail.user List Archives: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=2995 List Info: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users
