Re: Bug: subscriptions file

2018-05-24 Thread Rupert Gallagher
I shall volunteer, not to be chewed, alive, by the lions, on this fine day. Sent from ProtonMail Mobile On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 15:37, Timo Sirainen wrote: > I'd rather not add RFC-breaking settings. But there's IMAP4rev2 discussion > going on in

Re: Bug: subscriptions file

2018-05-24 Thread Timo Sirainen
I'd rather not add RFC-breaking settings. But there's IMAP4rev2 discussion going on in https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/extra . Someone motivated enough could perhaps try to suggest changing this behavior in there. > On 23 May 2018, at 23.13,

Re: Bug: subscriptions file

2018-05-24 Thread Rupert Gallagher
Well, ok, it is a feature, not a bug. I hope it will qualify as a bug for Thunderbird, because manual edit of the subscription file is just batshit crazy. Sent from ProtonMail Mobile On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 07:33, Aki Tuomi wrote: > I understand that reading that

Re: Bug: subscriptions file

2018-05-24 Thread Peter Chiochetti
Am 2018-05-24 um 07:38 schrieb Roger Klorese: If John Doe dies and a new John Doe is born, they’re not the same person, are they? They can even coexist, hundreds at a time. That is not a good analogy. Peter On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 10:37 PM Aki Tuomi

Re: Bug: subscriptions file

2018-05-23 Thread Roger Klorese
If John Doe dies and a new John Doe is born, they’re not the same person, are they? On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 10:37 PM Aki Tuomi wrote: > That's rather difficult semantic question. > > Aki > > On 24.05.2018 08:35, Roger Klorese wrote: > > If something deletes and recreates

Re: Bug: subscriptions file

2018-05-23 Thread Aki Tuomi
That's rather difficult semantic question. Aki On 24.05.2018 08:35, Roger Klorese wrote: > If something deletes and recreates the folder, it’s not really the > folder to which you subscribed, is it?! > On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 10:33 PM Aki Tuomi

Re: Bug: subscriptions file

2018-05-23 Thread Roger Klorese
If something deletes and recreates the folder, it’s not really the folder to which you subscribed, is it?! On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 10:33 PM Aki Tuomi wrote: > I understand that reading that paragraph makes it sounds obscure and > outdated. But the problem is that if

Re: Bug: subscriptions file

2018-05-23 Thread Aki Tuomi
I understand that reading that paragraph makes it sounds obscure and outdated. But the problem is that if something deletes & recreates your folder, while you were gone, you would lose the subscription. This includes other MUAs that are in no way obligated to resubscribe to the folder if they do

Re: Bug: subscriptions file

2018-05-23 Thread Rupert Gallagher
Sorry for top posting, my client is still broken. I have never seen the ghost of a "system-alerts" or similar "well-known" mail folder in the past 30 years. Compliance with an RFC obscure feature is compellong us all to clear subscriptions fol ders by hand. As we meet the problem over and

Re: Bug: subscriptions file

2018-05-23 Thread Aki Tuomi
On 23.05.2018 12:31, Rupert Gallagher wrote: > Dovecot does not clear the subscription file from non-existent folders.  Hi! Thank you for your bug report. Unfortunately this is not a BUG, but mandated behavior by RFC3501, see last two paragraphs in the excerpt. Aki Tuomi 6.3.6.  SUBSCRIBE