[Imap-uw] MIX and INBOX Questions

Erik Kangas kangas at luxsci.com
Fri Sep 15 08:43:21 PDT 2006


Hello,

I am looking at MIX coming from MBX and am confused about the exact way 
the INBOX is supposed to work.  It seems that the discussion in 
doc/drivers.txt has not been updated yet with any details on MIX.

In particular, with MBX:

1. ~userhome/INBOX is used if it exists and is in mbx format
2. The unix-format "mail spool" file for the user is read and messages 
are copied from that to the ~userhome/INBOX if there are any in it.

So, moving to MIX,

1. What is the definition of the global "INBOX" directory.
2. Does #2 still hold?
3. Now, people can presumably create subfolders of "INBOX".  So is a 
folder path of "INBOX/blah" going to correctly use the right path for 
"INBOX" and then look in the appropriate subfolders?  In that way, we 
end up with 2 folder trees -- INBOX and "friends" and wherever you keep 
your "imap folder path" folders for everything else.

Thank you,
-Erik Kangas


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