Subject: folder collections

From: Clifford Wesley Fulford <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 9 Apr 1996 15:56:31 +0100 (BST)

Hello

A student has recently pointed out to me that when loging in to pine, that
if you hit return at the password prompt followed by ^C you get access to
your folder collections (though not your inbox). I can reproduce this
consistently. I don't know how serious this is yet as I am only able to
test it locally where I have already done a UNIX login to the system. I'll
try it remotely from another site tonight.

I'm guessing this is a consequence of my having had to
define the folder collection as local (SOC mail/[])? Presumbably having
done this pine no longer requires the imap daemon to present these
folders? If this is the case I'm back to needing a way to make pine
recognise the collection with a host name defined.

Clifford W Fulford
University of North London
ISS-UNIX development
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From: Clifford Wesley Fulford <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 11:14:03 +0100 (BST)

Hi

I have now established that the problem is definitely caused by the IMAP
daemon, and is unrelated to which version of Pine is used.

The IMAP daemon I was using was supplied by Simeon and in their parlance
is version 3.4.3b. It claims to be the Washington IMAP daemon in its
documentation. If I substitute the real thing the problems with pine go
away (I don't know if this creates problems for Simeon yet).

The Simeon version has a configuration file which allows you to set the
mail folder type on creation. Although this is set to system default and
correctly creates Berzerk folders, when it looks for remote folders to
read it either is looking for a different format or cannot identify
Berzerk format folders even when it (the imap daemon) has created them.

I've skimmed the Washington documentation and cannot see any reference to
the configuration file for IMAP. Is there such a beast? (I've attached
the Simeon provided config file)

I would be grateful if someone would venture an opinion as to whether the
IMAP server I've been using is broken or simply misconfigured.

Clifford

Clifford W Fulford