Re: balsa mailboxesb

[Jeff Garzik <jgarzik pobox com>]

Stuart Parmenter wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 13, 1998 at 09:06:42PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > One more thing -- any objection if I change the pref-manager
> > mail-servers page to add column "Protocol"?  Something like
> > 
> > 	Remote Mail Servers:
> > 
> > 	POP3	localhost
> > 	POP3	mail.teleport.com
> > 	IMAP	pretzel.normnet.org
> > 
> > It looks like cheesy, single-mailbox IMAP support can be had with a
> > minimum of pain.
> Yes, it can.  It used to as well, but i broke it trying to make it nice
> multiple mailbox stuff.  That was the main reason for not having it in there.
> I really want to get IMAP working nicely, but for now (v0.5), this would
> probibly be ok.... but how are they going to view these mailboxes?

I would treat them with similar logic as POP3, no more, no less.  :)

POP3 currently downloads into the inbox, which seems simply and logical.

	Jeff