On Tuesday, 16 November 1999 at 20:02, Chris Green wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 16, 1999 at 02:49:20PM -0500, Brendan Cully wrote:
> > I've started implementing create/delete, but it's not going to be aware
> > of whether it can contain subfolders or messages right away. On some
> > servers you probably get that for free by creating something like
> > "Friends/" instead of "Friends", where "Friends/" contains subfolders
> > and "Friends" contains messages.
> >
> Yes, on the IMAP server I use at present the folders have a trailing
> '.' to differentiate them from the mailboxes. Are these actually
> separate entities on the IMAP server? It's rather confusing as the
> server I use doesn't itself actually acknowledge that hierarchical
> folders are possible but you can create them.
They aren't separate entities, they're just listed twice because there
are two operations availabe (descend and select), but only one "execute"
key. This will be redone, hopefully soon. I've been busier than I
thought lately...
> > I don't actually know whether MOVE is part of the IMAP RFC or not. You
> > may have to tag all messages and copy them into a new folder for the
> > forseeable future. Note that's not as slow as it sounds - it's all done
> > server-side.
> >
> That doesn't sound too difficult. The problem I'm facing at the
> moment is that the IMAP server (a free Web service) doesn't itself
> allow creation of a folder hierarchy using the Web interface and I
> can't create folders with mutt. Thus I need to use another mail
> program simply to create a folder hierarchy.
Note mutt does have a back door for creating mailboxes - save a message
to a path that doesn't exist, and mutt will offer to create it for you.
ie pick a random mailbox and copy a message to "=Newfolder/Newmx" and
mutt should create it for you.
-Brendan
