On Saturday, 28 August 1999 at 01:10, Brian D. Winters wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 27, 1999 at 05:46:46PM -0500, David DeSimone wrote:
> > Brian D. Winters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > > set spoolfile='{imapserver}inbox'
> > > set folder='{imapserver}INBOX'
> >
> [lots of explanation from David as to why this doesn't make sense omitted]
[snip]
> * There doesn't seem to be any way to create a directory hierarchy, at
> least not under mutt. Hard coding "INBOX." may be their answer to
> the {server}/folder problem you mentioned, or it may just be
> completely arbitrary. ("INBOX/" appears to be equivalent to
> "INBOX.", either through magic on the server or magic in pine.)
I'm working on it. Mutt should let you do this since in cases like this one
there's no other way (well, except for using a different IMAP client).
INBOX/ vs INBOX. should be handled by Mutt, which should be able to figure
out which delimiter is used on the server and translate '/' to it.
> * With my friend's server, using the folder browsing features in the
> devel branch to browse = shows two lines for every folder. One line
> is "=foldername", and the other line is "=foldername.". (This is
> from memory, so the exact text leading up to "foldername" and
> "foldername." may be more complicated.) It is the non-'.' folder
> which contains actual e-mail. Attempting to change to the folder
> ending in '.' results in nothing happening (I don't remember seeing
> any error messages from mutt even, although it has been a couple
> weeks so I may be mistaken). I have no idea what the '.' folder is
> for.
This is ugly I agree, but I'm not sure how to solve it. The intended
behaviour is that the folder without the '.' contains your mail (as you
have found), but the one with the trailing . is there so you can enter it
searching for subfolders. On UW IMAP servers folders either have mail or
subfolders, but it seems on Cyrus they can have both. If selecting the
folder with the trailing '.' results in nothing happening, that is a bug. I
haven't tested against Cyrus or against any folders that use anything other
than '/' as a delimiter, so it wouldn't be surprising. I would love to see
the .muttdebug0 file from 'mutt -d4' for a session where you switch to one
of these folders. Also I'm going to set up a Cyrus IMAP server somewhere
around here so I can do some limited testing against it.
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