Whoa, okay. So I may not even have IMAP installed at all. Duh.
Thanks for your quick replies.
-e
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nigel Metheringham" <Nigel.Metheringham@???>
To: "Eric Vautier" <eric@???>
Cc: <exim-users@???>
Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2003 1:01 PM
Subject: Re: [Exim] [Newbye] But can it do subfolders?
> On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 11:50, Eric Vautier wrote:
> > I've been using IMAP on the client end for a while, and appreciate
> > the possibility to create subfolders and set up filters to get
> > messages nicely sorted into clean drawers.
> >
> > Now my provider on a fresh domain name has EXIM installed as mail
> > server, and I'm able to access it under Outlook as IMAP. But try as
> > I may, I'm unable to create a single subfolder in the inbox. I'm
> > able to create folders on the same level as inbox, but no subfolders.
>
> Exim does not do IMAP. Exim is an MTA (Mail Transport Agent), which
> deals with moving mail across the network and putting it into some form
> of final delivery location. IMAP then exposes mail in that final
> delivery file/folder/directory/database.
>
> On an exim system IMAP is handled by some completely separate piece of
> software. There are several different IMAP implementations so we can't
> even guess whats happening in your case.
>
> Nigel.
>
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> [ Nigel Metheringham Nigel.Metheringham@??? ]
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