cyrus sub folders

[Bron Gondwana]

On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 03:04:57PM +0200, Mohamed Ali wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 2:58 PM, Bron Gondwana <brong at fastmail.fm> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 02:35:04PM +0200, Mohamed Ali wrote:
> > > when iam trying to access my mail from pop mail client i got only
> > messages
> > > that in the inbox and ignores all sub folders i created by squirrel mail
> > or
> > > even with Cyrus , how can i let cyrus to fetch messages under subfolders
> > > too?
> >
> > a) use IMAP, it's better.
> >
> > b) if you're force to use POP, you can use + addressing in your login to
> >   select a folder, eg:
> >
> > USER brong+Lists.Cyrus
> > PASS xxxxx
> >
> > NOTE - you still need a separate pop connection for each separate
> > folder.  POP doesn't have the concept of multiple folders.
> >
> > Bron ( just use IMAP already )
> >
> 
> is it limitation to cyrus only ? i have account on ms exchange and gmail so
> both can download messages from sub folders .

GMail does something funky with labels rather than folders, I'm not
entirely sure how their POP works.

Exchange - what program are you using to talk to it?  Again, I don't
have heaps of expertise with Exchange, but I would have thought you'd
be connecting with Outlook and using its own protocol rather than POP
to get full functionality.

Cyrus is natively an IMAP server (the project is called cyrus-imapd!)
and only talks POP as an afterthought.  IMAP really is the best choice
for interacting with it.

Is there a reason why you want to use POP?  Most clients are quite happy
to talk IMAP.

Bron.