Re: [bug-mailutils] is Sergey Poznyakoff OK?

[Gary Potwin]

Hi, Sergey.  Thank you for your response.  I would like to clear up, as best
we can, these email problems, and then, by all means, I would like to get back
to the IMAP server questions.  I noted (see headers below) that you responded
to the message that I sent to address@hidden on August 17.  Did you
ever receive the previous, nearly identical, message that I sent to 
address@hidden on August 13?  Please let me know if my emails are getting
through, and which email address you would prefer that I use.  I am also
sending a nearly identical copy of this message to address@hidden to 
insure that at least one of them gets through.

Thank you,

Gary

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Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 09:40:45 +0300
From: Sergey Poznyakoff <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: [bug-mailutils] is Sergey Poznyakoff OK? 
In-reply-to: Your message of Mon, 17 Aug 2009 09:36:29 -0400
         <address@hidden>
References: <address@hidden>

Hi Gary,

> 1. I needed to see what was being communicated between the IMAP server and
> the mail program.  I couldn't figure out how to set "imap4d_transcript" from
> the command line,

It is set in imap4d configuration file, in section "server", like this;

server 0.0.0.0:143 {
  transcript yes;
}

> 2. The problem I am having with the directories graying out may be due to my
> inexperience at this, since I have never before attempted to set up an IMAP
> server.

I don't quite understand what exactly "graying" means. Is it some way to
represent folder attributes? If so, what attributes? 

> Would you kindly tell me what directory structure is normally
> expected by an IMAP server,

There are no restrictions on mailbox and directory structure. Any
directory hierarchy is understood.

> (I really don't yet understand how the following code works:
> 
> if (record->_is_scheme)
>   return record->_is_scheme (record, url, flags);

The `_is_scheme' is a "virtual method" which is defined in the library
responsible for the particular mailbox implementation (e.g. in
libmu_maildir, for mailboxes in maildir format).

> source code package), and some of them refer to a namespace that would start
> with "mh:" or "#mh" in my case.  Should I put one of these in as a namespace
> parameter in the mail program?

No, the "namespace" directive has nothing to do with the mailbox types.

Regards,
Sergey