Re: balsa mailboxesb

[Gleef <dzol virtual-yellow com>]

On Sun, 13 Dec 1998, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> 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.

But then you lose all benefit of having IMAP support, which is that the
email can be organized at the central mailserver.

-Gleef