Re: [courier-users] courier folders

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Alessandro Briosi writes:

> Is there a way the the courier-imap makes me do and see the folder
> structure with main folders at the same level than the Inbox, but then I
> can still create folders under the Inbox?
>
> What I mean is:
>
> INBOX
> ---Some subfolder (for archiving e-mails)
> Sent
> -- Some other subfolder
> Trash
>
> I know there is the possibility to set on the client that the IMAP Path
> it is INBOX but this is not what I want.
>
> I'd like to have a directory structure like this
>
> ~/INBOX
> ~/INBOX/Some subfolder
> ~/Sent
> ~/Sent/Some other subfoder
> Trash
>
> (Like binc does)..

No. An IMAP server has no control over how the client presents the server's=

folders. Unsophisticated clients simply present them in the same
order they are stored on the server. Properly-implemented IMAP clients will=

not foist this completely artificial limitation on you.

For example, my IMAP client, Cone, shows my folders as follows:

mrsam: Courier-IMAP server
INBOX (741 messages, 523 unread)
=E2=86=92 Folders
=E2=86=92 #shared.
=E2=86=92 shared.
Courier-Users (9 messages, 5 unread)


The "Courier-Users" folder appears at the top level, as a sibling to
"INBOX", but this is really a folder called "INBOX.Lists.Courier-Users".
Cone does not show all my folders as subfolders of INBOX. For starters,
Cone is intelligent enough to understand the server's NAMESPACE, and
understand that on this IMAP server, all user folders are logical children
of INBOX, so it places a "Folders" link, next to INBOX, which opens those
folders (it also automatically knows about the server's namespaces that hold=

filesystem-based and ACL-based shared folders, as shown above).

If I were to open that "Folders" link, above, I would then see all my
folders directly under INBOX, on the server, including a folder directory
called "Lists". I filter my mailing list messages into about a dozen
folders, "INBOX.Lists.<listname>", including "INBOX.Lists.Courier-Users".
If I were to open the "Lists" subfolder directory further, I would see all
my mailing list folders that I created there.

Except for "Courier-Users", because I instructed Cone to show this folder as=

a top-level folder. A shortcut to a folder, if you will. If I were to
remove this shortcut, this folder will automatically reappear in its real
place, as a child folder of "Lists".

Therefore, if you're not happy with how _your_ IMAP client shows your
folders to you, this simply means that your IMAP client's capabilities are
lacking in that area, and you should, instead, direct your inquiries in that=

direction.



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