Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 21:33:25 -0800 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "RW" <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: help on picking an IMAP server Message-ID: <002101c77031$71f68c00$3c01a8c0@coolf89ea26645> References: <20070322064044.GA7157@skytracker.ca> <20070322183822.056b4caa@gumby.homeunix.com>
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----- Original Message ----- From: "RW" <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2007 10:38 AM Subject: Re: help on picking an IMAP server > On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 01:40:48 -0500 > David Banning <david+dated+1174977648.a93167@skytracker.ca> wrote: > > > I have been using imap-uw for some time but now I would like to > > have an imap server that can have subfolders. Out with imap-uw.. > > > > I tried dovecot but I was unable to get it to create subfolders, > > although it seems some say you can, may people are having problems > > doing so, and I didn't like the fact that it changes the format of > > the folders from the mbox standard. > > AFAIK imap-uw does support subfolders, to the same extent that UNIX > supports subdirectories. The problem is that you can't have a > mailbox file and a subdirectory of the same name in a directory. So in > foo/bar, bar is a mailbox and foo/ is a directory - so there can't be > a top-level mailbox called foo. > > It's just a matter of organizing your mailboxes to take account of > this. I agree, I have had no problems making folders on the server with uw-imap I respectfully submit that anyone who is ignorant of the importance of UNIX special characters like the / in a directory name would almost certainly boff up any IMAP subfolder creation regardless of what IMAP server software he was using. He's probably coming from a Mac. Hopefully he knows about the other UNIX special characters. Unfortunately, immediately taking an attitude that "It's not my mistake it must be the software" whenever encountering trouble with a computer is not going to get anyone very far. Ted
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