From: Justin Sheehy <dworkin@ccs.neu.edu>
Subject: Re: IMAP server hierarchy as topics
Date: 18 Feb 2000 21:36:07 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <vndbt5dj4vc.fsf@camelot-new.ccs.neu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Chris Richards's message of "15 Feb 2000 09:26:44 -0600"
Chris Richards <cjr@netpliance.net> writes:
> And along those lines, it would be nice if nnimap used many of the
> same features that the nnfolder backend uses. In other words, you
> should be able to read local IMAP folders stored under ~/Mail with
> nnfolder.
I must be misunderstanding what you are asking for. In the general
case, you certainly can't read IMAP mailboxes with nnfolder.
IMAP is a mail access network protocol that quite intentionally does
not specify the storage format of mailboxes. It is entirely
implementation-dependent. One IMAP server might store folders in mbox
format, one might store them in an mh-like format, and another might
store them in a database.
It is quite clear and essential that the end-user never needs to know
what format the server uses for storage.
Thus, while users of one specific IMAP server implementation might be
able to get at their mailboxes with nnfolder, nnmh, or whatever, this
is not a feature that can be generalized.
-Justin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-02-19 2:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <wtnn1pzpw2z.fsf@licia.dtek.chalmers.se>
2000-01-21 12:55 ` Wishlist for oGnus Kai Großjohann
2000-01-21 14:40 ` Editing articles in read-only backends (was: Wishlist for oGnus) Toby Speight
2000-01-21 14:43 ` Wishlist for oGnus David Z. Maze
2000-01-22 15:18 ` Alexandre Oliva
2000-01-23 15:58 ` Group parameters and splitting (Was: Re: Wishlist for oGnus) David Z. Maze
2000-01-21 14:45 ` MML editing improvements (was: " Toby Speight
2000-02-02 2:49 ` Wishlist for oGnus Rob Browning
2000-01-21 14:17 ` Robert Epprecht
2000-01-21 21:27 ` Kai Großjohann
2000-10-29 23:00 ` nnfolder NOV (was: Wishlist for oGnus) ShengHuo ZHU
2000-10-30 2:49 ` Dan Christensen
2000-10-30 3:35 ` ShengHuo ZHU
2000-10-30 4:05 ` Dan Christensen
2000-01-21 14:38 ` Wishlist for oGnus john s jacobs anderson
2000-01-21 14:55 ` Posting profiles David Kagedal
2000-01-21 15:00 ` john s jacobs anderson
2000-01-21 15:08 ` Wishlist for oGnus Alan Shutko
2000-01-21 15:22 ` Didier Verna
2000-01-21 16:15 ` Karl Kleinpaste
2000-01-21 16:46 ` Alan Shutko
2000-01-21 18:25 ` Michael Cook
2000-01-21 21:33 ` Kai Großjohann
2000-02-02 16:01 ` lconrad
2000-02-09 16:44 ` Alf-Ivar Holm
2000-01-22 2:44 ` Stainless Steel Rat
2000-01-22 15:12 ` Doug Bagley
2000-01-23 23:26 ` John Prevost
2000-01-27 17:42 ` Raja R Harinath
[not found] ` <wtnu2k7e4by.fsf@licia.dtek.chalmers.se>
2000-01-31 1:45 ` Justin Sheehy
2000-01-31 12:23 ` Steinar Bang
2000-01-31 22:32 ` Andrew J Cosgriff
2000-02-01 11:01 ` Andi Hechtbauer
2000-02-02 21:04 ` Andreas Fuchs
2000-02-04 11:06 ` Steinar Bang
2000-02-04 13:32 ` David Kagedal
2000-02-04 15:31 ` Simon Josefsson
2000-02-04 20:06 ` IMAP server hierarchy as topics Steinar Bang
2000-02-04 22:46 ` David Kagedal
2000-02-05 2:14 ` John Prevost
2000-02-14 16:37 ` Steinar Bang
2000-02-15 10:29 ` David Kagedal
2000-02-15 14:32 ` David Kagedal
2000-02-15 14:43 ` David Kagedal
2000-02-15 18:42 ` Arnd Kohrs
2000-02-16 12:26 ` David Kågedal
2000-02-16 14:56 ` Steinar Bang
2000-02-16 15:42 ` David Kågedal
2000-02-15 15:26 ` Chris Richards
2000-02-15 16:47 ` IMAP extra headers (was: IMAP server hierarchy as topics) Toby Speight
2000-02-19 2:36 ` Justin Sheehy [this message]
2000-02-19 3:58 ` IMAP server hierarchy as topics Chris Richards
2000-02-19 12:24 ` Simon Josefsson
2000-02-11 19:31 ` Wishlist for oGnus Anders Melchiorsen
2000-02-11 21:29 ` Kai Großjohann
2000-02-14 12:06 ` Multiple view interface (Re: Wishlist for oGnus) Anders Melchiorsen
2000-05-11 14:50 ` Wishlist for oGnus Kim-Minh Kaplan
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