Well, yes, and no.
I'll start speaking outside my turf a little, so don't crush me if I get
this a little munged...
In IMAP < 4, there was support for "an Inbox." That is, the only thing
IMAP would let you do is peer into the standard Inbox. So, if your
client asked for IMAP mail, the server would already know exactly what
it wanted, and where to get it. Under UNIX, this would be
/var/spool/mail or /usr/spool/mail, depending on the UNIX (i.e., BSD
uses the latter I believe).
With the not-yet-finished proposals for IMAP4, you have support for
multiple mailboxes, just as you do with almost all existing email
clients. Thus, it's reasonable to have this setting available in
Messenger; though it's probably not so good to have it manditory.
If you use Messenger itself, and not the "Message Center" view in
Communicator, it should query the Inbox only, and not even pay attention
to your other folders, whether or not they exist. I may be wrong. To
avoid any problems, I simply specified a directory in Preferences and
have forgotten about it since. Doesn't really hurt... you don't even
have to have the directory exist on the server machine. And, if it's
empty, or doesn't exist, Messenger won't try to give you 8,000 folders
that aren't really folders.
-Fred
Bench wrote:
>
> Isn't it that Netscape Messenger should ONLY look at my mailbox (thru
> IMAP) which is in /var/spool/mail/ directory not on any of my folders in
> my home directory.
>
> On Wed, 20 May 1998, Fred Whipple wrote:
>
> > In Messenger's preferences, you can set your server IMAP directory. So,
> > if you wanted your remote IMAP folders to be in, say,
> > /home/fwwhippl/.imap_remote you would set that to be the server IMAP
> > directory. On the other hand, if you set nothing, it lets the server
> > put you where ever it wants, and of course being a UNIX system, after
> > having authenticated, the IMAP process likely puts you into your home
> > directory. So, if Messenger then asks to see a folder list in the IMAP
> > folder, and the IMAP folder is (by default) your home directory, that's
> > what you get.
> >
> > On the server side, I made a directory called:
> >
> > /home/fwwhippl/.netscape/imap_remote
> >
> > and set that directory as my server IMAP folder on the client side. Of
> > course it's empty, so I have no folders showing. If I made any folders
> > via Netscape, or in the directory structure on the host machine, they
> > would show up as folders.
> >
> > Hope this helps.
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