Subject: folder collections

From: Clifford Wesley Fulford <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 3 Apr 1996 14:18:00 +0100 (BST)

Further to my earlier message.

If I delete a folder eg. drafts and then write to it ie postpone a message
in this case, everything goes well and the file is recreated in the
correct area $HOME/mail/drafts. Compose however does not find the drafts
folder and a further postpone cycles me through the not found, create,
already exists routine.

Any one have any thoughts yet?

Clifford W Fulford
University of North London
ISS-UNIX development
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From: Clifford Wesley Fulford <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 3 Apr 1996 17:15:46 +0100 (BST)

I ask these questions, I might as well answer them.

I have found a solution.

If instead of

LABEL {<hostname>[.<domain>]}mail/[]

I enter

LABEL {}mail/[]

It works. Is this a bug or is this predictable behavior that I should have
known about? Mark? David?

Clifford

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From: Clifford Wesley Fulford <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 4 Apr 1996 14:19:20 +0100 (BST)

To continue this monologue

I spoke too soon
LABEL {}mail/[]
allowed the folders to be displayed but not written to, the message
being 'incorrect remote format' (or something similar).

LABEL mail/[]
finally returned the original functionality (the folder collection now
being treated as local).

I normally use the Simeon IMAP server which I understand is the
Washington server with some tweaks. The problems started after
installing the new version (of Simeon's mail service). I tried installing
the Washington version packed with 3.92 with no change.

I'm thinking that in some way the default mail box format for remote
message stores got changed, in the new release? or possibly in the IMAP
configuration file?