On Fri, 29 Jul 2005, Raphael Studer wrote:
>point ("INBOX") and now it works.
>What is this "Personal Namespace"?

There is an extension to the IMAP protocol called "NAMESPACE", which lets
you declare a prefix that separates your mailboxes into different groups.
For example, your may have a company namespace, and a personal namespace.
And sometimes IMAP servers declare "shared folders" namespaces and "news"
namespaces, for simulating NNTP through IMAP.

Some servers use INBOX as the base mailbox for all personal
messages, and all mailboxes you create must be subfolders of this mailbox.
So you get INBOX/Work, INBOX/Play and so on.

But when users want root level mailboxes, these servers are sort of
fscked, so they use the NAMESPACE extension to simulate that the
subfolders of INBOX are in fact root level folders. So by declaring your
"personal namespace" to be INBOX, the client will look inside INBOX to
find your own mailboxes. That way, the above mailboxes become

INBOX
Work
Play

The reason that it didn't work for you with "INBOX." as the prefix is that
Binc IMAP uses '/' and not '.' as a mailbox delimiter. So "INBOX" or
"INBOX/" would both work.

Andy :-)

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Andreas Aardal Hanssen   | http://www.andreas.hanssen.name/gpg
Author of Binc IMAP      |  "It is better not to do something
http://www.bincimap.org/ |        than to do it poorly."

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