Re: IMAP folder path

1999-09-04 Thread Brendan Cully
On Thursday, 02 September 1999 at 15:12, Brandon Ibach wrote: > Quoting Brendan Cully <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I've been thinking some more about this. I don't really want two keys to > > operate on folders, one for selecting and one for descending. Most users > > have folders that contain *either

Re: IMAP folder path

1999-09-02 Thread Brandon Ibach
Quoting Brendan Cully <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I've been thinking some more about this. I don't really want two keys to > operate on folders, one for selecting and one for descending. Most users > have folders that contain *either* subfolders *or* messages, but not > both. Making them two keys for f

Re: IMAP folder path

1999-09-02 Thread David Thorburn-Gundlach
Brendan, et al -- Thanks for your clarification and extension of my little picture. I'm still not too IMAP-savvy and was thinking in terms of a local folder browser (hence the files, instead of messages, in the bottom section). I admit that I'd very much like to have such a browser available fo

Re: IMAP folder path

1999-09-01 Thread Brian D. Winters
I don't quite agree with what you proposed, but you gave me some good food for thought. Here goes... On Wed, Sep 01, 1999 at 10:48:49PM -0400, Brendan Cully wrote: > On Wednesday, 01 September 1999 at 14:18, David Thorburn-Gundlach wrote: > > I like the idea of having two different actions (view

Re: IMAP folder path

1999-09-01 Thread Brendan Cully
On Wednesday, 01 September 1999 at 14:18, David Thorburn-Gundlach wrote: > Hi, folks -- > > As a user, I know what I'd like to see: some listing of folders and > subfolders a la eudora, without mentioning any mailboxes thereunder > (that's for the other display). > > I like the idea of having tw

Re: IMAP folder path

1999-09-01 Thread David Thorburn-Gundlach
Hi, folks -- As a user, I know what I'd like to see: some listing of folders and subfolders a la eudora, without mentioning any mailboxes thereunder (that's for the other display). I like the idea of having two different actions (view-directory and open-item) for the same "object" (a folder). S

Re: IMAP folder path

1999-09-01 Thread Brian D. Winters
On Wed, Sep 01, 1999 at 10:37:45AM -0400, Brendan Cully wrote: > Now now. Sorry, shouldn't write e-mail when I'm tired and grumpy... > This actually isn't a big deal if you are using a GUI client with a mailbox > window separate from the message index window and one of those nifty > tree-view wi

Re: IMAP folder path

1999-09-01 Thread Brendan Cully
Brian D. Winters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 30, 1999 at 03:22:42PM -0500, David DeSimone wrote: > > I wonder, though, if our original poster, who used a setting like > > folder="{imapserver}INBOX." was attempting to get Mutt to translate > > "+folder" into "{imapserver}INBOX.folder",

Re: IMAP folder path

1999-08-31 Thread Brian D. Winters
On Mon, Aug 30, 1999 at 03:22:42PM -0500, David DeSimone wrote: > I wonder, though, if our original poster, who used a setting like > folder="{imapserver}INBOX." was attempting to get Mutt to translate > "+folder" into "{imapserver}INBOX.folder", which means a folder > literally named "INBOX.folde

Re: IMAP folder path

1999-08-31 Thread David DeSimone
Brendan Cully <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Should mutt append the delimiter except against the root namespace > {imapserver}, or should you just have to say 'set > folder="{imapserver}Mail/" (mutt will never append the slash to imap > folders)? it's probably not useful for Mutt to append the de

Re: IMAP folder path

1999-08-29 Thread Brendan Cully
On Friday, 27 August 1999 at 17:46, David DeSimone wrote: [snip] > But, as shown, a folder name such as "+folder" would expand out to be > "{imapserver}INBOX/folder". That's clearly the wrong path; it should be > "{imapserver}folder" to reference a folder stored in your home > directory. > > B

Re: IMAP folder path

1999-08-29 Thread Brendan Cully
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

Re: IMAP folder path

1999-08-28 Thread Brian D. Winters
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] I agree, my solution doesn't app

Re: IMAP folder path

1999-08-27 Thread David DeSimone
Brian D. Winters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > set spoolfile='{imapserver}inbox' > set folder='{imapserver}INBOX' That first setting works, and makes sense, but the second doesn't. Mutt will take the second setting and expand it whenever a path is referenced that starts with "=" or "+". It doe

Re: IMAP folder path

1999-08-27 Thread Brian D. Winters
On Fri, Aug 27, 1999 at 01:47:48PM -0400, Thomas Shay wrote: > I've recently switched to using a Cyrus IMAP server for mail, and can't > figure out how to specify the path to mail folders on the server. With > pine, the format seems to be {imapserver}INBOX.[] (this points at what I ran across one

Re: IMAP folder path

1999-08-27 Thread Brendan Cully
Thomas Shay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've recently switched to using a Cyrus IMAP server for mail, and can't > figure out how to specify the path to mail folders on the server. With > pine, the format seems to be {imapserver}INBOX.[] (this points at what > pine calls a "folder collection) and

IMAP folder path

1999-08-27 Thread Thomas Shay
I've recently switched to using a Cyrus IMAP server for mail, and can't figure out how to specify the path to mail folders on the server. With pine, the format seems to be {imapserver}INBOX.[] (this points at what pine calls a "folder collection) and with netscape the format seems to be {imapserve