[imp] Downloading Whole Folders

[Marius Strom]

IMNSHO from an ISP perspective I think that most users would be confused
by the option to "download the mailbox/folder".  KISS seems to apply
here, although I could definitely see usefulness of this if the user
intelligence were sufficient. ;)

On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 12:26:55PM -0500, Chuck Hagenbuch wrote:
> Okay - interesting feature. Do other admins have an idea of the 
> usefulness/confusion factor of this feature? It shouldn't be too hard to 
> implement, though it'd probably be kind of time-consuming...
>
> > Specifically, I'd like to see an additional folder operation,
> > "Download" for when users hit quota, they can download a folder(s)
> > in the standard .mbx format.  They then could archive it off to a CD
> > or something and would be able to read it in (probably far into the
> > future) with just about any e-mail client that supports local
> > mailboxes.

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