Re: IMAP-problems

[Darko Obradovic <dobradovic gmx de>]

Am 2003.04.25 08:51 schrieb(en) M. Thielker:
> Hi,
> 
> Outbox is in fact a special case, Inbox used to be the same. I 
> removed that restriction a long time ago. With Inbox it was that pop3 
> was assuming that it could always drop mail into a local (mbox) file.
> With Outbox, it seems to be little more complicated, because it is 
> just a mailbox, after all. Sure, ESMTP may require the message in a 
> local file, but I don't believe so. AFAIK the message is passed in 
> memory.
> It's probably only historic and could be changed quite easily. 
> Question is: Why?
> An IMAP Outbox makes no sense. Outbox is a mailbox that needs fast 
> access, because all mail senr will pass through it.
> Also, it is normally emptied very frequently as mail is sent, so it 
> would never groew to outrageous sizes. Why put it on IMAP?

Just another question:
Is your statement the explanation for this bug:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=110931

It's not only meant IMAP-wise, that also prevented me from switching 
outbox to maildir-format a while back as well. :)

bye,

Darko