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diff --git a/archivemail.1 b/archivemail.1 index 69b0d48..90c3393 100644 --- a/archivemail.1 +++ b/archivemail.1 @@ -314,12 +314,11 @@ username or password. Note that quoting only a substring will not work, and be aware that your shell will probably remove unprotected quotes or backslashes. .PP -\fBIMAP\fR servers supporting subfolders may use any character as a -mailbox path separator, that is, as an equivalent to the slash character on Unix -systems. -If you are archiving an IMAP subfolder, first \fBarchivemail\fR will try -to open a given mailbox name unchanged; if this fails, it will interpret any -slashes in the URL as path separators and try again. +\fBarchivemail\fR tries to be smart when handling mailbox paths. +In particular, it will automatically add an IMAP NAMESPACE +prefix to the mailbox path if necessary; and if you are archiving a subfolder, +you can use the slash as a path separator instead of the IMAP server's +internal representation. .SH "EXAMPLES" .PP .PP |