Re: How does Balsa store new messages?

["M . Thielker" <balsa t-data com>]

On 2001.07.15 15:57 Carlos Morgado wrote:
> 
> > desgnate a folder to be the inbox if there's not way to have mail
> delivered
> > into that folder when it's remote.
> 
> hum ? define "remote".
> 
IMAP, in this case. When I designate an IMAP folder to be the INBOX, pop3
mail still shows up in the local folder (the one linked to the system spool.
If I remove that folder from the list, pop3 mail is still delivered to that
file, so the new mail is not visible to Balsa unless procmail delivers it
into another local folder that _is_ on the folder list.
The situation I desire most, namely having no local folders at all, is
currently not possible with Balsa. I would prefer to be able to download
pop3 mail to a temp file, that is then immediately committed to an IMAP
folder and to have no local (mbox, mh, maildir) folders at all.

> > It should, I guess, be spooled into a temp file, encapsulated into a
> mutt
> > message and written using libmutt functions. That would work for both
> local
> > and remote inboxes.
> > 
> 
> that is exactly what happens for pop3.
> 
Maybe it does get saved to a temp file first, but it is then appended to the
system mail spool, see above.

Cheers,

Melanie