On Wednesday 06 February 2002 10:09 am, you wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 09:42:55AM -0600, SpencerUnderground wrote:
> > I am using kmail today.
>
> My condolances.
I am feeling a little better thanks.
>
> > I started using kmail again because sylpheed will not read the
> > sub-directories of my imap folders,
>
> Do you understand why?  Sylpheed was designed as a graphical front-end
> for mh or nmh, the Rand Mail system.  mh was originally designed as a
> bulletinboard style email system.  The format in which mh stores its
> emails is a separate file for each email numbered in sequence in the
> directory it is stored.  IMAP servers traditionally don't understand
> this format.  Likewise, Sylpheed was not originally designed to read
> mbox or maildir style email formats.  That may have changed in recent
> months, but IIRC, it wasn't the original intent.
*Thank you* for the consice answer. I now know why these clients appear to 
suck so much :-)
>
> Personally, I'd love to make the nmh tools more friendly to other mail
> formats as well.  But that's not really going to happen unless I roll up
> my sleeves and start coding.
I will just have to make do, but thanks.


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