[plug] Recommended local mail access method

[Cameron Patrick]

Shayne O'Neill wrote:

> For reference, I tried to load a ridiculously huge inbox into outlook
> express, and the damn thing tried to map my somewhat sprawling home dir
> into folders, generating some 2000 folders (I think the damn thing was
> even trying to follow symlinks). Naturally I decided that 'outlook express
> considered harmful'.

That one sounds more like a case of "UW imapd considered broken" to
me.  (Which moron decided that treating every file in your home
directory as a mailbox was a sensible default for an IMAP server!?)

Cameron.