I used Althea for the first time yesterday and it did
not recognise the folders which contain other folders
on my IMAP server. I'm using the UW IMAP server.
When we originally started althea we discussed and argued
and fought over whether or not to support sub-folders. I
think our final decision was that it was a feature that was
going to make our data s-=tructure a lot more complicated
and so in the interest of getting something stable done
quickly (we only had 10 weeks to get something done) we
didn't include sub-folders. There is of course, room to
change in althea and so knowing that you want this feature
is important to us considering a data change. I'm curious
to know how you use sub-folders. I'm starting to believe
that it might be a good feature since you could have a
"Development" folder and under this folder you could have a
folder for each development list you were subscribed to,
like "Althea-Devel List." More to think about....
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Same thing here -- I've got about six years of saved mail
in nested folders, originally built in Eudora then copied
to my Linux host in mbox format. Outlook Express and
Eudora 5 both grumble about finding directories under
~/mail rather than just mbox files, but they DO handle it.
E.g. I have a "Finance" folder that is broken down
into "Banking", "Insurance", and so forth. I could
flatten the hierarchy but it would be a lot of work and the
result would be much less useful. It would require a very
tall window, or a lot of scrolling, or both.
What I'm doing now is reading and discarding a lot of stuff
in mutt on the Linux box, then moving to a Windows box and
using Eudora as my IMAP client to drag-and-drop the things
I want to file away permanently. Yeah, it's as icky as it
sounds. (Eudora's so confused that it displays TWO folders
named "inbox"!)
I was really excited to hear about a Linux IMAP client with
a GUI. I appreciate your efforts, and hope you can
accomodate this feature request. Thanks!
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When we originally started althea we discussed and argued
and fought over whether or not to support sub-folders. I
think our final decision was that it was a feature that was
going to make our data s-=tructure a lot more complicated
and so in the interest of getting something stable done
quickly (we only had 10 weeks to get something done) we
didn't include sub-folders. There is of course, room to
change in althea and so knowing that you want this feature
is important to us considering a data change. I'm curious
to know how you use sub-folders. I'm starting to believe
that it might be a good feature since you could have a
"Development" folder and under this folder you could have a
folder for each development list you were subscribed to,
like "Althea-Devel List." More to think about....
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Same thing here -- I've got about six years of saved mail
in nested folders, originally built in Eudora then copied
to my Linux host in mbox format. Outlook Express and
Eudora 5 both grumble about finding directories under
~/mail rather than just mbox files, but they DO handle it.
E.g. I have a "Finance" folder that is broken down
into "Banking", "Insurance", and so forth. I could
flatten the hierarchy but it would be a lot of work and the
result would be much less useful. It would require a very
tall window, or a lot of scrolling, or both.
What I'm doing now is reading and discarding a lot of stuff
in mutt on the Linux box, then moving to a Windows box and
using Eudora as my IMAP client to drag-and-drop the things
I want to file away permanently. Yeah, it's as icky as it
sounds. (Eudora's so confused that it displays TWO folders
named "inbox"!)
I was really excited to hear about a Linux IMAP client with
a GUI. I appreciate your efforts, and hope you can
accomodate this feature request. Thanks!
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Done. Sub folders are not supported to some extent... they
will be listed as
folder/subfolder
in the tree... ideally I think we would want them to be in
subtrees, but this is a start....