On Thu, 21 May 2009, Andrew Daviel wrote:
I had thought subscriptions vaguely useful - if a user has a lot of
archived mail - e.g. 10 folders "1990", "1991" etc. - that they don't
want cluttering up the folder list, they may unsubscribe from them. If
they then login with a different client, the subscribed list will
persist.
Yes, that is what I specified. But nothing implemented it.
Any client which do a LIST * and subscribe all the names returned is broken
by design.
I don't see Thunderbird doing that
Take a look at what happens the first time that you run Thunderbird.
Alpine on the other hand does 'RLIST "" %' and lists all the .vacation,
.spamassassin etc. so if one doesn't have a mail directory (as per the
Thunderbird default) many confusing files show up in "Folders on
mail.example.com" (OK, there is a disable-dot-files)
I lost that battle many years ago.
Once upon a time, the IMAP server did not list dot-files. I was forced to
change it.
I no longer have to defend such bad decisions. So I won't.
-- Mark --
http://panda.com/mrc
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep deciding what to eat for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
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