[mew-int 01609] Re: imap w/4.0.60

[Chris Beggy]

On 10 Nov 2003, Kazu Yamamoto (山本和彦) <kazu at example.com> wrote: 

> I don't what's happing to you but...
> 
> (1) Mew can work with Cyrus well.
> 
> (2) Cyrus uses the name space whose prefix is "inbox." on the IMAP
>     protocol level.
> 
> 	e.g "inbox.foo"

Thanks for your detailed reply.

Cyrus imap has a switch to allow a namespace for the user where
the "inbox" and the other mailboxes are at the same level of
hierarchy.  The configuration switches are "altnamespace: yes"  and
"userprefix: user".  You probably know about this.

> (3) With the user interface of Mew, a user should type "%foo" instead
>     of "%inbox.foo".

If I am using the namespace described above, does that change how
I should access the IMAP mailboxes from mew?

> You can find internal details in mew-imap.el.

Yes, I spent some time looking at this before I wrote, and I
think my configuration corresponds to a case not mentioned here:


> ;;              Mew             cache           IMAP
> ;;              folder          directory       mailbox
> ;; 
> ;; WU
> ;;              %foo            foo             foo
> ;;              %foo/bar        foo/bar         foo/bar
> ;;              %~alice/foo     #~alice/foo     ~alice/foo   "~" -> "~"
> ;;              %#shared.foo    #shared.foo     #shared.foo
> ;; 
> ;; Cyrus
> ;;              %foo            foo             inbox.foo
> ;;              %foo.bar        foo.bar         inbox.foo.bar
> ;;              %~alice.foo     #user.alice.foo user.alice.foo

so is this one above the case of using an alternate namespace?
If so, I am not able to recognize the folders using this prefix.

After accessing IMAP and giving the password, my
mew-imap-folders-alist is

(("default"
  (16303 49738)
  (("%queue")
   ("user.sales.Inbox" "." "" "user." nil)
   ("%debian" . "debian")))
 ("home"
  (16303 49738)
  (("%queue")
   ("user.sales.Inbox" "." "" "user." nil)
   ("%debian" . "debian"))))

Where the folders debian and Inbox should be at the same level of
hierarchy.  I don't know where %queue comes from.

Chris