On Oct 27, 2006, at 10:36 AM, Erik Kangas wrote:
I wondered if it is possible to have a file or files in a users
mail tree that will either not show up when you do an IMAP LIST, or
which will be "non-selectable".
As an example in point, lets say I wanted to compress an email
folder into a TGZ file and allow it to be left in the folder free.
As it is, that will look like a plain
folder with 1 message in it. Better if this could be hidden from
the server. Obviously one solution is to move it outside the IMAP
tree ... but I wonder if there is any for leaving it in the tree?
If you set your server to ignore hidden files you could have the
archive start with . and thus be in the tree but not seen by the
server. There could be issues if the user attempts to delete the
parent mailbox, however.
Either the delete would fail, (confusing the user since the mailbox
looks empty) or it would succeed (possibly deleting something useful
that the user wouldn't have known was there). Either would be bad so
unless this is only at the top-level which isn't delete-able you
might not want to do this.
-Mike
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