From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/34521 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Steven E. Harris" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: nnimap RFC2342 support (IMAP4 Namespace) Date: 01 Feb 2001 10:37:21 -0800 Organization: Tenzing Communications Inc. Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <87lmrqfdwe.fsf@torus.tenzing.com> References: <87wvbb5dwx.fsf@lovi.inf.elte.hu> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035170433 30846 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 03:20:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 03:20:33 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from karazm.math.uh.edu (karazm.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.1]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id F04FED049D for ; Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:43:24 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by karazm.math.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAC11392; Thu, 1 Feb 2001 12:42:31 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Thu, 01 Feb 2001 12:41:46 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from mailhost.sclp.com (postfix@66-209.196.61.interliant.com [209.196.61.66] (may be forged)) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA29918 for ; Thu, 1 Feb 2001 12:41:34 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from ts-exch01.tenzing.com (ts-exch01.tenzing.com [63.115.0.25]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08894D049D for ; Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:42:02 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from torus (63.115.3.217 [63.115.3.217]) by ts-exch01.tenzing.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2653.13) id D49BG7Q6; Thu, 1 Feb 2001 10:42:01 -0800 Original-Received: from seh by torus with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 14OObh-0005jy-00 for ; Thu, 01 Feb 2001 10:37:21 -0800 Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: NAGY Andras's message of "01 Feb 2001 03:34:54 +0100" User-Agent: Gnus/5.0807 (Gnus v5.8.7) XEmacs/21.1 (Capitol Reef) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Original-Lines: 28 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:34521 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:34521 NAGY Andras 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. -- Steven E. Harris :: steven.harris@tenzing.com Tenzing :: http://www.tenzing.com