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From: Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>
Subject: Re: using INBOX.(Drafts|Sent|Trash) folders with nnimap?
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 19:32:52 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <iluy8xypyrf.fsf@latte.josefsson.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3llu0ip9k.fsf@toyland.sauerland.de>

Sebastian Kaps <seb-dated-1060761653.a9a05e@toyland.sauerland.de> writes:

> Hi!
>
> I recently changed my Gnus setup to use IMAP instead of POP3. Since I've
> never used IMAP before, I'm not quite familar with it.
> I have these three 'special' folders on my mail server: INBOX.Drafts,
> INBOX.Sent and INBOX.Trash.
> I'm wondering if I could use INBOX.Drafts instead of the "nndraft:drafts"
> group and INBOX.Sent instead of "nnfolder+archive:...".

It is not possible, as far as I know.

> I guess for the latter it wouldn't work to put something like
> (setq gnus-message-archive-group "nnimap:INBOX.Sent") into ~/.gnus.

Yes.

> How are these folders supposed to be used anyway?

The folders are not special, most likely some other IMAP client
generated them for you (squirrelmail is a likely suspect).


       reply	other threads:[~2003-08-12 17:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <m3llu0ip9k.fsf@toyland.sauerland.de>
2003-08-12 17:32 ` Simon Josefsson [this message]
2003-08-13 11:34   ` Sebastian Kaps

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