Re: balsa mailboxesb

[Jeff Garzik <jgarzik pobox com>]

Gleef wrote:
> 
> 
> 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.

We are going to do full IMAP support later, simple IMAP support now.

	Jeff