On 21 Feb 2003, Jonas Pasche wrote: > Hi Charlie,
Hi Jonas, > > > If .INBOX exists and is a Maildir, then we rename it to an > > > appropriate replacement name, such as .INBOX-Renamed, .INBOX-Renamed-<n> > > > where n increases. > > > > Why would you do this? So that someone can switch from bincimap to > > courier, to binc, to courier, etc? Is it important to support that? > > As I'm in the process of having both servers running on two different > IPs on the same machine, it's kinda important to be able to have > consistent IMAP access, meaning, I'd like to see exactly the same folder > structure. Sounds a perfectly reasonable expectation. > For example, I use Evolution under Linux as my mail client, with no > manual namespace settings. Using Courier-IMAP, INBOX is a folder between > all other folders. Using Binc IMAP, INBOX is a root folder which > contains every other folder (and it doesn't make too much sense to have > the "Sent" box as a subfolder of "INBOX" - that's like the good old > "Click on <Start> to shutdown the machine"). I think this speaks to implementing a NAMESPACE feature in bincimap, with the value in your setting being "INBOX". -- Charlie Brady
