Re: Issues on converting from mbox to IMAP

[Peter Bloomfield <peterbloomfield bellsouth net>]

On Jun 25, 2005, at 10:30 AM, Mişu Moldovan wrote:
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> Annoying to me as a translator is the fact that marking some folders 
> on the IMAP server as mailboxes with special functions (inbox, 
> sentbox, trash etc.) doesn't change the displayed name automatically 
> using the localized version. The "sentbox" in ~/.mail used to be 
> "Trimise" in my localized Balsa, but the sentbox on the IMAP server 
> remains "sentbox" even after explicitly marking it as "Trimise" with a 
> blessed right-click. I've found the "Name" entry in the 
> [mailbox-Sentbox] field of Balsa's preference file and edited by hand 
> all the required fields, but it would have been nice if this have 
> worked out of the box.

You can more easily set the name of any of the "special" mailboxes on 
its "Properties" dialog.  But you're right, there's an inconsistency 
there: a localized name is set initially by the druid, but not 
transferred when a different mailbox is marked.

> Another annoyance was that it doesn't seem to be a way to mark the 
> "outbox" on the IMAP server as the special "outbox" for Balsa. A "mark 
> as outbox" doesn't exist in the right-click menu for mailboxes. Is 
> this by design? I don't really understand why the "outbox" must lie in 
> the ~/.mail directory and "draftbox" is allowed on the IMAP server. 
> However, this was also fixable by hand in the ~/.gnome2/balsa file.

That one has a long history--try searching the list.  Briefly: imap 
servers are often remote and may not be available, and an unavailable 
outbox really hampers Balsa.

> Other than that it was quite a smooth transition and Balsa looks and 
> works as lovely as ever.

Great!