Re: IMAP Incoming Message Folders

On Tue, 20 Sep 2005, david wrote:

> I've been following the thread on Pine and folders, hoping to see
> something that relates to a concern i've long had. I have a groupwise IMAP
> account with three mail folders: the inbox, plus a folder named
> 'pending' and one named 'outside' i can easily access the inbox, but i
> can't set up the other folders. the tips i've seen on adding a folder in
> the setup just cause me to create folders locally, which is not my intent.

Does my reply to Mathias on Sep 17th help at all? You need to add a new
collection and specify the server and any parameters (such as
/user=username) correctly. I think it would also help to know the
structure of IMAP folders in GroupWise. For example in Courier IMAP,
folders are sub-folders of INBOX delimited with a period (eg, INBOX,
INBOX.sent, INBOX.trash, INBOX.myholiday).

As for how this is all presented in Pine, that depends on whether you
use the incoming-folders function. With incoming folders disabled your
INBOX appears in your first folder collection, eg

mailserver.example.com
INBOX sent trash myholiday work keep whatever

mail.foo.example.com
sent trash pets receipts recipes

another.mail.server
sent trash foo bar friends

and you can shuffle which collection you want at the 'top' and hence
which one your INBOX appears in. With incoming folders enabled, and the
same mail collections it's presented like this instead.

Incoming Folders
INBOX

mailserver.example.com
sent trash myholiday work keep whatever

mail.foo.example.com
sent trash pets receipts recipes

another.mail.server
sent trash foo bar friends

and you can add more inbox type folders to your incoming folders. If
you just collect mail from one IMAP server only and want the lot in one
place it's easy - leave incoming folders disabled, specify your inbox
and add a single collection for your mailbox. The result will be

mail.example.com
INBOX sent trash work jokes

> I am using PC PINE version 4.61.

4.63 fixes some bugs.

--
Chris
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