On 11/6/07, Robert Burrell Donkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > RFC3501 indicates that IMAP mailbox should not ever be completely > deleted: meta-data must be retained in case the mailbox is ever > recreated. in order to ensure that clients are not confused, data > about subscription, UID and UIDVALIDITY must be retained. > > MailboxManager ( > http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/james/server/trunk/core-library/src/main/java/org/apache/james/mailboxmanager/manager/MailboxManager.java > ) > has a delete method: > > void deleteMailbox(String mailboxName) throws MailboxManagerException; > > with no javadoc's. the Torque implementation deletes the mailbox > entirely. this violates the IMAP specification and causes issues for > clients. AIUI the right behaviour is to retain the name in the > namespace and return \noselect (please jump in if i have this wrong). > > opinions? > > - robert >
Probably I've overlooked something, but I've read this: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3501#section-2.3.1.1 >From that section, I think we dont have to keep mailboxes, just we have to ensure that UIDVALIDITY is properly generated. For example the timestamp of the mailbox creation time would be good. For the subscription status, I think a simple list of strings would be enough to persist. BR, Zsombor
