Re: Pine + Courier IMAP

*** Steve Thompson ([email protected]) wrote in the pine-info list today:

:) For system #1, pine displays the names of folders in this collection 
:) like so:
:) 
:) 	name1	name2	name3	name4
:) 
:) and for system #2, like so:
:) 
:) 	name1[.]  name2[.]  name3[.]  name4[.]
:) 
:) This difference is user independent.

Steve,

  What you are seeing is the difference in the reporting of folders from 
the server. In the system #1 above, each folder is listed, as most folders 
are. That should not be of concern. The difference is that in system #2, 
each folder is also reported as a directory, that is, the folder itself 
may contain other folders. System #1 does not know that, System #2 knows 
that.

  Users using system #2 can open the folder by pressing RETURN and open 
the directory by pressing the ">" key, when they put the cursor over any 
of those folders. Users in system #1 open the folder by pressing RETURN or 
the ">" key.

  To restate all of this again, think of the file system. The file system 
probably uses "/" to separate files and directories, like in 
"mail/sent-mail". When Pine reports a directory it writes the separator at 
the end of the name, as in "mail/", so you can differentiate between 
folders and directories by looking at the last character.

  In a Courier file system, the separator is ".", not "/", so Pine is 
telling you two things, that "name1[.]" is a folder because you can ignore 
what is between brackets, and a directory, because if you delete the 
brackets you get "name1.", which is a directory. The same is true for 
other dual uses, as in "name1[/]", which other servers do.

  Does this make sense at all to you?

-- 
Eduardo
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