Subject: [/] at the end of folder names?

From: Matt Ackeret <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 18:25:23 -0800 (PST)

My account moved to a new mail server yesterday..

and I notice that today my pre-existing mail folders (except INBOX) are
showing up like this:

sent-mail[/]

if I go onto that one, and type R to go into rename mode, the [/] is NOT
showing up.

So what does the [/] mean, and how can I turn it off?

Note, that these actually aren't even directories in the folder list.
The one subdirectory I have is showing up, as expected, with just a / at the
end.

It seems to be pine putting this on, since this isn't showing up in another
mail program (Mail.app)

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From: Dan Hatton <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 17:52:55 +0000 (GMT)

> So what does the [/] mean, and how can I turn it off?

I found a hint on the web
<http://www.inter7.com/courierimap/README.imap.html> that when a
maildir format mailbox, containing both messages and sub-mailboxes, is
shown in the Pine folder list, [.] gets appended to the name of that
mailbox.  I'm therefore hazarding a guess that the appearance of a
character in square brackets, after a folder name, is telling you that
the folder is in an unusual (probably message/file rather than
flat-file) format, and the fact that the character is a "/" is telling
you what format (perhaps mh.)  Further evidence for this view is at
<http://www.washington.edu/pine/pine-info/2001.06/msg00014.html>.

You could try asking the folks at your ISP if they changed any mailbox
formats during the server changeover.  If so, information about how to
change them back again is at
<http://www.washington.edu/pine/faq/sysadmins.html#11.16>.

Good luck

Dan Hatton

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