Re: Suggestions for Balsa

[Jon Tai <jon tgpsolutions com>]

On 2001.10.06 14:06 Pawel Salek wrote:
>
>On 2001.10.06 22:57 Peter Bloomfield wrote:
>>One more question: can you be more specific about `If I edit the 
>>file...'? What file is that? Would it be the same as unsubscribing? If 
>>it is, the folder is still supposed to be listed, since the MUA needs to 
>>explore its subtree for subscribed folders/mailboxes, and I think you'd 
>>want Balsa to show it as a node in the mailbox tree. A client that fails 
>>to see the subtree is itself broken, as I understand the process.
>
>I guess he meant ~/.mailboxlist which is a text file that UW-IMAP stores 
>the list of subscribed folders in. Operations on this file are identical 
>to (UN)SUBSCRIBEing via IMAP commands.
>

Correct.  Sorry I didn't make myself clear...

>I concur that Outlook express in broken in this respect, and squirrelmail 
>behaviour can be considered as a, hm, feature.

Agreed, but the alternative would be writing UW IMAP and telling them 
their server is broken, writing Squirrelmail telling them to remove 
support for UW IMAP, and then writing Microsoft, which of course would do 
no good.

- Jon