From 78b4923832a9cb469d4782b5eb1d2bca971254a7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nikolaus Schulz Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 15:38:51 +0000 Subject: IMAP: be NAMESPACE-aware; improved probing for guessed mailbox names. * Automatically add NAMESPACE prefix to the mailbox path if necessary, * Explicitely check for guessed mailbox names with LIST instead of just trying to SELECT them. * Updated documentation about NAMESPACE handling. --- archivemail.1 | 11 +++++------ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) (limited to 'archivemail.1') 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 -- cgit v1.2.3