Library enhancements and/or replacement

[Char Jackson]

[snip]

I think I've figured out that you use a completely non-standard
definition of the word mailbox.

Eh? Mailboxes work that way in Eudora.

I haven't used Eudora so I'm happy to take your word for it. The
question, then, is whether you're able to translate from Eudora-speak
to regular-speak. I can't.

I have no idea what you are referring to by a regular-speak
definition for mailbox. What is your definition of "mailbox"?

A mailbox, in this context, resides with your email provider. Mail
addressed to you is delivered to your provider, and in turn they drop
it into your mailbox. At some point, you take action to retrieve that
email, typically by using an email client or a web browser, in some
cases.

They put it in my In mailbox on their server. They filter spam
as well, and that gets put in a spam mailbox. There are other
mailboxes defined as well.

No, that's all a single mailbox. "Inbox", "Spam", and others are just
folders.

Eudora also allows me to define mailboxes on my system. I have
dozens of them.

Most assuredly, those are not mailboxes. They are probably folders,
but I can't be sure from here.

The mailboxes most definitely are in the picture. If I choose to
keep an E-mail that I receive, I move it from my In mailbox to
whatever mailbox I choose to archive it in.

It quickly gets confusing when you use terminology incorrectly. Those
aren't mailboxes.

 

[Gene Wirchenko]

[snip]

It quickly gets confusing when you use terminology incorrectly. Those
aren't mailboxes.

Eudora calls them mailboxes. The Wikipedia article on
E-mailboxes refers to reserved mailboxes. I expect that if I kept
looking, I would find more.

Maybe your E-mail handling software does not call it that, but
that does not make the usage wrong.

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko

 

[Char Jackson]

Eudora calls them mailboxes.

I know, and I don't blame you for the incorrect usage. You may not
have known better. The Eudora folks should know better, though.

The Wikipedia article on
E-mailboxes refers to reserved mailboxes.

If you mean this site,
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_box>,
it's pretty clear that the folders in your preferred email client are
not mailboxes. Check the Definitions section.

Maybe your E-mail handling software does not call it that, but
that does not make the usage wrong.

My email client isn't involved in this mess.