[Jwma-devel] Subscription: compatibility with other MUAs

[Leonard S. <sit...@uc...>]

On Monday 24 March 2003 6:28 pm, Dieter Wimberger wrote:
> 2. Added implementations for L1 und L2 of the subscription support ! ;)

One concern I've had when using IMAP subscription is whether the contents that 
are created in the .mailboxlist file are respected by other IMAP MUAs.

I've found that Jwma and Kmail behave the same, in that they respect a 
relative path to the user home.  For example, I have a mailbox named
/home/sitongia/Mail/Java, and the format for .mailboxlist is:
Mail/Java

Many other forms are possible, such as:
/home/sitongia/Mail/Java
~sitongia/Mail/Java
~/Mail/Java

None of these other possibilities will be shown by Jwma or Kmail.

Unfortunately, my concern has been driven by users who use Netscape mail.  In 
Netscape Mail, *all* of these possibilities will be visible in the MUA.  
*However*, only "Mail/Java" will be readable.  In other words, Netscape (BTW, 
this is Netscape 7 on Linux) presents an icon for the other possible forms, 
but when you click on them, it says they are unreadable.

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