Netscape and Mozilla (was: Re: [Techtalk] Opera Help with Replies)

[Rasjid Wilcox]

On Monday 03 November 2003 12:56, Staci wrote:
> On Sun, 2 Nov 2003, Brenda Bell wrote:
> > Before I can play with the From field, I need to actually get it
> > configured for the standard stuff.  I'm using courier-imap... I can get
> > to my INBOX, but having trouble figuring out how to set up my special
> > folders (Drafts, Sent, Trash) and shared folders (I have several).  I'm
> > searching the web high and low for docs, but if you know of a good
> > resource, please send it my way.  Thanks.
>
> And if someone gives you one please pass it on to me, I didn't EVER figure
> out how to get into my other imap folders.

What exactly is the question here?

I have just finished setting up Courier-Imapd, Courier-Maildrop, fetchmail and 
postfix so I can now change mailclients as I please.  I'm very happy with the 
arrangement, but it took me several days (hmm.. perhaps a week might be a 
better description) to work out everything.  (I also tried out Bincimap, 
Cyrus-Imap, DBmail and got my head around User-mode-linux in the process.)

My first question is how are you getting your mail into Courier-imap?  Are you 
just assuming that Courier will see your Maildir folder and deal with it 
appropriately?

If so, then that is your problem.  Each imap server has it own style of 
Maildir setup (assuming you are using a Maildir type imap server) and none of 
them are compatible.

Also, Courier really only likes to have folders under the INBOX.  With some 
mail clients it is possible to get the client to display it outside the 
INBOX, but that is client specific.  There is a FAQ on this problem 
(http://www.inter7.com/courierimap/FAQ.html#namespace) which I read about 5 
times before I realised that this really was the answer and the only answer I 
was going to find from the Courier-Imap community.  It was several days 
before I understood what the answer meant - and that was only because by that 
time I had played around with the Imap protocol directly.  Personally I think 
that the answer is unintelligible unless you have done that.  (ie, a classic 
case of the answer not meaning anything to anyone who is likely to ask it.)

Anyway, give me a little bit more info, and I'll see if I can help.  :-)

Cheers,

Rasjid.

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Rasjid Wilcox
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