[imp] creating folders

[Keith A. Chayer]

Quoting Paul Juliano <paul@edsamail.com.ph>:

> Quoting Jan Johansson <j2@mupp.net>:
> 
> > > What exactly do I need to change so that I can create top-level folders
> > besides INBOX?
> > 
> > Are you by any chance accessing your server via POP and not IMAP? If it
> is
> > POP, you cannot use folders.
> 
> I am accessing my server via IMAP.  I've installed Courier-IMAP to provide
> IMAP 
> access for my Maildir mailbox.  As I have said before, I can create
> sub-folders 
> under INBOX, but I can't create any top-level folders.  It always says
> 'invalid 
> mailbox name'.

That's just the way Courier works.  Like Cyrus, user folders simply are 
subfolders of the INBOX.  If you set the folder prefix to "INBOX.", that 
distinction will be transparent, though.

..Keith

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Network Technician                                         Springfield, MO
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