From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/2846 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Simon Josefsson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: using INBOX.(Drafts|Sent|Trash) folders with nnimap? Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 19:32:52 +0200 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138669129 16551 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 00:58:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:58:49 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:31:18 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: tjatte.nada.kth.se Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 1060710056 28811 130.237.226.88 (12 Aug 2003 17:40:56 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 12 Aug 2003 17:40:56 GMT User-Agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:s6GiHtnXgmzVb7i+8nD1iCVKlN8= Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:2986 Original-Lines: 22 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 2986 Tue Jan 17 17:31:18 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:2846 Archived-At: Sebastian Kaps 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).