On Wednesday 23 May 2007, Andy Green wrote: > Anne Wilson wrote: > > I doubt it. At least, unless he is actually viewing it on the server. > > I'm not sure why it happened, but when I first set up imap I did see them > > like that on the server. Perhaps it was something to do with the format > > conversion, though I can't explain it. Later I did a fresh OS install > > and set it up again, copying the imap folders across. Now the server > > display looks very much like the client box. > > > > This brings to mind the caveat that if this is indeed the case, he should > > generally work in the imap folder section and ignor the local section. > > Yeah. To underline the point for Timothy: IMAP is designed to fully > give you access to the mail ONLY over the IMAP connection (no NFS to the > server either). You no longer need "Local folders" or maildir or mbox > or anything else directly. Which doesn't mean that you should get rid of them :-) > Instead the IMAP clients can cache mails > that you have brought down over IMAP for offline use, but they do that > seamlessly once you set it up, rather like some browsers can show you > stuff from their local disc cache even if you are offline. The big > advantage is that if you expose your IMAP port externally, you can log > into from anywhere on the Internet when you are travelling and there is > ALL your mail just as if you were at home. > > > Come to think of it, he never said whether he is viewing on the server. > > Maybe he has the one workstation and one laptop. If that's so, it would > > be interesting to know if the laptop display also seems to show all the > > mail in the local inbox. > > But he has had an "unhealthy" interest in the format used privately by > the IMAP server, it would be consistent if that was because he is indeed > either running the IMAP server on the same box or has dragged its > entrails over to his box via NFS. > > It might also help explain why he won't try another IMAP client, he > still thinks it will be grief setting up maildirs and such. Once you > discard the "Local folders" concept, it's a small matter which IMAP > client you use, the real business goes on at the IMAP server > irrespective of the client. So you can use five clients before > breakfast (should any of them... have bugs... ;-) ) and it's not going > to break anything or need configuring over giving the mail client the > IMAP server info and credentials. > My preference is for kmail, but I have used thunderbird and seamonkey from time to time, out of curiosity. Everything is available, except that any flags you set in kmail are not usable/visible in another mail client, and vice versa. Anne
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