On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 08:22:03PM +1200, Steve Kurzeja wrote:
On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 10:46:57PM +0100, Paul Tansom wrote:
Please don't scare the wotsits out of me, I've just abandoned Courier IMAP for two reasons:
- it seems incapable of handling subfolders anywhere but below the Inbox and the only help suggested is that I should ask the people writing my mail client to fix it - so that covers Microsoft (x2), Mozilla (x2), Eudora, Evolution and Squirrel mail for starters!
Of course it can't because it uses the brain-dead convention of folders all being files at the same level with '.' separators in the filenames indicating folders.
The "dot" notation for folder hierarchy doesn't matter. Its the implementation of the imap server itself as to how it handles the folder hierarchy.
How could you implement a hierarchy that *isn't* rooted at one point with the "dot" notation then? It's essentially impossible as far as I can see.
You can move the point at which it's rooted but it's inevitable that all its 'folders' will be rooted at the same place.
-- Chris Green (chris@areti.co.uk)
"Never ascribe to malice that which can be explained by incompetence."