Re: So I guess no one really cares about the IMAP folder root.

2000-02-11 Thread aphro
ok..yeah i understand more now :) i guess i do the same w/pine, even though it's POP3 mail i can ssh in from anywhere and the mail is always there.. nate On Fri, 11 Feb 2000, Joe Emenaker wrote: jemena >> what makes IMAP better for you then POP3 ? jemena > jemena >Try this: jemena > jemena >Set

Re: So I guess no one really cares about the IMAP folder root.

2000-02-11 Thread Joe Emenaker
> what makes IMAP better for you then POP3 ? Try this: Set up two machines (for a completely implausible scenario, let's say that the two machines are at your work and at your house) to read from the same POP server. Now, you have two options when you configure your mail program: leave messages

Re: So I guess no one really cares about the IMAP folder root.

2000-02-11 Thread Joe Emenaker
> Shall I assume you don't really care. ;-) I care so much that using a deprecated back-door hack just won't do. I need some configurablilty that isn't going to just disappear out of the blue, forcing me to retrograde back to a previous version like I've just had to do when the default root moved

Re: So I guess no one really cares about the IMAP folder root.

2000-02-10 Thread Patrick Kirk
t;[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Jaldhar H. Vyas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Debian User" ; Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2000 6:25 AM Subject: Re: So I guess no one really cares about the IMAP folder root. > curious what makes IMAP so important ? ive had tons of ISPs and be

Re: So I guess no one really cares about the IMAP folder root.

2000-02-10 Thread aphro
curious what makes IMAP so important ? ive had tons of ISPs and been on tons of networks and all of them used POP3 .. what makes IMAP better for you then POP3 ? nate On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: jaldha >There was some discussion of having the IMAP folder root be configurable jald

So I guess no one really cares about the IMAP folder root.

2000-02-10 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
There was some discussion of having the IMAP folder root be configurable (i.e $HOME or $HOME/mail). A few days ago I wrote of a way to do this. Mind you it came with a big fat warning from the author but I would have assumed *somebody* tried it. No one has gotten back to me to tell me if it work