Re: selective IMAP and not for inbox

Matt Ackeret <[email protected]> Mon, 25 Feb 2008 11:12:02 -0800 (PST)
Newsgroups gmane.mail.pine.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, 25 Feb 2008, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
>I need to add IMAP. I read several docs and howtos on pine and IMAP, but 
>they all mentioned "inbox".
>
>I don't want my inbox to be IMAP-based. My inbox is an MBOX -- I want to 
>keep it that way. And I have hundreds of folders that are just local 
>MBOXes -- I don't want to use IMAP for them.
>
>How can I get pine to use IMAP for one folder? Please share an example.

Does this mean that you're trying to use IMAP *and* POP to the same server?

That sounds like a recipe for mailbox corruption to me.  (I know that
I have corrupted mailboxes by trying to use two mail clients using POP in
the past..  IMAP is designed for multiple access.)
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