David Hallowell wrote:
> Is it possible to read news through IMAP? My IMAP server has a folder
> #news which in it contains all the newsgroups that I've subscribed to
> when accessing that account through the shell (so the IMAP server must
> read my .newsrc files).
>
> So it looks like some IMAP servers support newsreading. However if I
> try to click on a group I get:
> The current command did not succeed. The mail server responded: SELECT
> failed: Can't open mailbox #news.uk.comp.os.linux: no such mailbox
>
> So the question is: is this a problem with the IMAP server or does
> Mozilla have to do something to implement IMAP support for newsreading?
It's probably a Mozilla client bug - it doesn't have to do with
newsreading per se, but probably our handling of namespaces. Your best
bet is to generate a protocol log, and file a bug on me.
Here's how to generate an imap protocol log:
http://www.mozilla.org/quality/mailnews/mail-troubleshoot.html#imap
- David
