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In email software like Rmail, where mail is stored in files, filenames are used to refer to groups of messages. Since IMAIL folders often aren’t files, it is necessary to use a more general kind of reference for folders. To this end, IMAIL uses Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) to refer to folders.2 IMAIL currently supports two kinds of URLs: IMAP URLs and file URLs.
• IMAP URLs | ||
• File URLs | ||
• Container URLs |