Hi
Using Apple Mail I cannot make subdirectories within new directories I have made on a Debian Dovecot-driven IMAP server (version 0.99.11-3).
Some users, having used Exchange, expect to be able to do this. However I can't make it happen, even after doing some tests by chmod-ing the top-level directories to 777 and enabling the
mail_full_filesystem_access = yesoption on a test install.
Views, comments and remarks much appreciated! Rory
Rory Campbell-Lange <rory@campbell-lange.net> <www.campbell-lange.net>
Don't seem to be able to do it in mutt either, so perhaps it isn't part of the IMAP spec?
Elucidation would be much appreciated.
Thanks, Rory
On 14/12/04, Rory Campbell-Lange (rory@campbell-lange.net) wrote:
Using Apple Mail I cannot make subdirectories within new directories I have made on a Debian Dovecot-driven IMAP server (version 0.99.11-3).
-- Rory Campbell-Lange <rory@campbell-lange.net> <www.campbell-lange.net>
Rory Campbell-Lange wrote:
Don't seem to be able to do it in mutt either, so perhaps it isn't part of the IMAP spec?
You cannot create subfolders when using mbox (IMAP has nothing to do with it). If you need this functionality, you will have to switch to the maildir format.
HTH
John
-- John Peacock Director of Information Research and Technology Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group 4501 Forbes Boulevard Suite H Lanham, MD 20706 301-459-3366 x.5010 fax 301-429-5748
Thanks for the mail John. Yes, I feel suitably sheepish.
Apologies, Rory
On 14/12/04, John Peacock (jpeacock@rowman.com) wrote:
Rory Campbell-Lange wrote:
Don't seem to be able to do it in mutt either, so perhaps it isn't part of the IMAP spec?
You cannot create subfolders when using mbox (IMAP has nothing to do with it). If you need this functionality, you will have to switch to the maildir format.
Rory Campbell-Lange <rory@campbell-lange.net> <www.campbell-lange.net>
Am 14.12.2004 um 11:12 Uhr -0500 schrieb John Peacock:
Rory Campbell-Lange wrote:
Don't seem to be able to do it in mutt either, so perhaps it isn't part of the IMAP spec?
You cannot create subfolders when using mbox (IMAP has nothing to do with it). If you need this functionality, you will have to switch to the maildir format.
That's definitely wrong.
While this is a dim area of imap, working with subflolders (which are directories on the server side) and mbox mail folders is definitely possible.
The ususal restriction is that mailboxes are imposs^Wdiscouraged on the same level as subfolders, i.e you can have mailboxes on the tips of the tree, only, not on the nodes. Some clients (Eudora, notably) appear to have less problems with that than others (e.g. Mozilla).
hauke-- /~\ The ASCII Ribbon Campaign Hauke Fath \ / No HTML/RTF in email Institut für Nachrichtentechnik X No Word docs in email TU Darmstadt / \ Respect for open standards Ruf +49-6151-16-3281
Hauke Fath wrote:
That's definitely wrong.
I'd argue that what I am describing is more accurate than what you are describing.
While this is a dim area of imap, working with subflolders (which are directories on the server side) and mbox mail folders is definitely possible.
The mbox format does not support subfolders _as originally defined_ (it's just a catenation of messages into a single file). The maildir format does (and in fact that feature was one of the reasons it was created, the primary one being NFS-safe behavior).
I am not arguing that it is impossible to use mbox's in such a way as to emulate multiple folders using mbox files (and I believe both pine and Mutt do so). I am simply saying that any software doing that has to do so outside of the mbox format itself (and AFAIK, dovecot doesn't do it at all).
John
-- John Peacock Director of Information Research and Technology Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group 4720 Boston Way Lanham, MD 20706 301-459-3366 x.5010 fax 301-429-5747
participants (3)
-
Hauke Fath
-
John Peacock
-
Rory Campbell-Lange