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. -- -- Spencer Butler Twin Cities Open Systems spencer at tcopensys.org | Open Source Solutions http://tcopensys.org | Every Day Solutions Key fingerprint = 173B 8760 E59F DBF8 6FD2 68F8 ABA2 AB08 49C7 4754