pine & courier-imap

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From: Jody Belka
Subject: pine & courier-imap
Date: 01:42 on 31 Oct 2003
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

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Jody Belka
knew (at) pimb (dot) org

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