Hi,
First a disclaimer: I don't use IMAP myself, I've just read the
discussions that people have had about it on this list (and others).
So it's written "to the best of my understanding", which could be
wrong. :-)
Robert Suetterlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Thu, 13 Jul 2000:
> I thought, that IMAP could be generally used in a way quite similar to
> FTP to access any file the IMAP Server and User-rights allow. Like my
> muttrc-file or almost anything on my home account.
Not quite, I think IMAP is *meant* for accessing mail folders on a
remote mail servers. Ie. it's for presenting mail only. If your
IMAP server lets you do something else with it, like view non-mail
files, that's up to the server... But Mutt's behaviour for those is
certainly unspecified, as you don't expect to access anything but
mail over IMAP.
> 1) Can I get mutt/IMAP to handle maildir as it does locally, and/or
> if/what this is something I have to teacj my IMAP-Server?
The IMAP server should understand whatever mail storage format is
used on the local server. The underlying storage is (should be)
abstracted by the IMAP server, and shouldn't be at all visible to
an IMAP client. The mail could be stored in mbox files, Maildirs,
or even a database, as long as the IMAP server can access it and
present it to the IMAP client, the client shouldn't care (or really,
to even be able to know).
> 2) Can I get mutt to access my muttrc in work over IMAP?
Given that IMAP is for mail only, and a muttrc file is not mail, no.
Regards,
Mikko
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