Re: [RFC] : Filters <-> Mailboxes association

["M . Thielker" <balsa t-data com>]

On 2001.08.20 18:47 Brian Stafford wrote:
> IMAP is a mailbox *access* protocol.  The design assumption is that mail
> is
> delivered to the mailboxes it serves by some other mechanism. 
> Consequently
> there is no means within IMAP for delivering mail to a mailbox.

Precisely. IMAP is also a convenient way for netwide mail storage, used just
as a storage backend. The frontend's job ist toprocess, sort and organize
mails within that message store. So Balsa should be able to do that.

Melanie