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Webmail system; how to create folders?

When programming with webmail systems, how would you go about and creating folders? with IMAP? or other means??

let's assume the folder(s) are created, how would moving and copying emails to those folder by done as well??

Wouldnt emails be stored in a database? then you could just change the field from 'folder1' to 'folder2' etc.. but i dont know how storing email works.. just a way to do it

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I thought the emails were stored in a DB too, but I was wrong ... :grumpy

Those emails are stored elsewhere on the IMAP/POP3 server, when first received, i'm just a bit confused about how they are taken from one folder to the next folder, though.

but then again, where and how are the folder(s) created?? , and how are they moved around afterwards? with unix command? (oh that's a scary thought)

Last edited by droomagon, May 19th, 2004 05:38 PM (Edited 1 times)