Hi Jason,
Which server?
The one where the mail comes from or the one where you are using your
client to access?
As I likely shared, this is an effort to use alpine to manage my gmail.
If I follow, the folder choices are provided by gmail, regardless of what
alpine incorporates?
Karen
On Thu, 28 Dec 2023, 'Jason J.G. White' via blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
On 28/12/23 00:56, Karen Lewellen wrote:
However, because he has never used alpine, nor has he used basic html in
gmail, he is basing the expected sorting on the standard gmail process.
that process does not use folders at all, but labels apparently.
as a result,there are things I imagine alpine expects to find which is not
here. We are using imap for gmail, but my personal experience of imap,
based on dreamhost, still has a mail folder with saved messages, sent
mail, postponed messages probably spam etc.
and an imap folder which has other elements unique to dreamhost.
Which IMAP folders exist depends on the server. Whatever client software you
use just lets you access the IMAP folders that the server provides.
You may need to subscribe to specific folders to access them, depending on
the client.
Likewise, automatic classification of mail and moving it into folders is
typically accomplished by the server, for example using a Sieve script. In my
case, for example, I have created a Sieve script that automatically delivers
mail from various mailing lists into different folders. Suspected spam goes
into the "spam" folder, etc.
If you're using a commercial mail service rather than a server that you
control, hten obviously you lose some of that flexibility.
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