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It's important to realise that it's the combination of these two pieces of software that i find particularly hateful. At the same time, I place the blame firmly on pine in this case, as courier isn't actually doing anything wrong. Now, courier-imap lets you have both folders and messages in a single folder. Pine can cope with this. It starts to have trouble when courier puts everything below the inbox. Now this is completely and utterly legal (AFAIK); unfortunately, pine's folder list can't cope with this, and you have to enter the name of the folder manually. At this point we now clash with another feature of pine. pine has an Inbox-Path option, which is used anytime INBOX is specified as an unqualified folder name. it doesn't matter which server you have selected, INBOX always takes you to the Inbox-Path folder. So, if you only have one courier-imap server things aren't too bad. you set the Inbox-Path and everything works well enough. But add another server to the mix. Now you only have one Inbox-Path, so any time you want to go to the other servers inbox you have to type in the fully qualified folder name. that is, server name, user name, and any connection options that are required. that can be a lot of typing, and just pisses me off. i HATE software -- Jody Belka knew (at) pimb (dot) org
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