Filing of sent mail

Tom Hughes tom at compton.nu
Tue Sep 7 23:40:54 BST 1999


In message <7d9c7d3d49.rav21 at gromit.mk-net.demon.co.uk>
          Richard van der Hoff <rav21 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:

> I note that, when posting mail or news, if the folder chosen for filing
> the message doesn't exist, the message isn't filed, rather than creating
> the folder or giving an error.  IIRC, a new folder is created by
> Newsbase - could we do this in RemoteNB?

It is supposed to so if it isn't for you then it's a bug I'd like
to get to the bottom of.

> In a similar vein, is it possible to have folder names with spaces with
> RemoteNB?  Trying to create one gives an error about a missing argument
> to CREATE, and a folder with a space in it on the server seems to be
> ignored.

I've never tried this but it is quite likely yo give it a bit of a
headache. To be honest I don't even know how well the IMAP protocol
will cope with it. I shall investigate...

> Finally, if I don't enter a path for private folders in the config file,
> and then try to create a personla folder, I again get the error "Missing
> required argument to CREATE" - would it be possible to have a more
> informative error message?

This will probably change with version 1.02 which I've just finalised
as the meaning of an empty private folder path has changed.

Tom

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