Re: nnimap RFC2342 support (IMAP4 Namespace)

["Steven E. Harris" <steven.harris@tenzing.com>]

NAGY Andras <nagya@inf.elte.hu> writes:

> But it would be a really nice feature (however implemented) if I
> could say "on this (cyrus) server all but one of the mailboxes have a
> name starting with `INBOX.'.  I don't like this, so please let me name
> my mailboxes whatever I want, and prepend this prefix automatically,
> at low level, when sending it to the server, and remove it on the way
> back.  Do this on all the mailboxes except for the special one
> `INBOX'."

That's exactly what I was asking for. Additionally, there should be a
way to abstract folder "nesting." As my example showed, one server
allowed/permitted slashes, while the other required dots as
separators. On one server, private user folders can live alongside
INBOX. On the other server, those folders must be under the
INBOX. Conceptually, the folders are in the same place, though. I
thought RFC2342 enables that abstraction. The user thinks only of
INBOX, and a folder tree. The actual syntactic representation of that
tree may be server-specific, but RFC2342 allows the proper translation
to happen.

Maybe I'm projecting more hope into than it deserves. It just seems
that Outlook is able to maintain this single representation as far as
the user interface goes. Perhaps Gnus could do something similar.

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