Re: nnimap RFC2342 support (IMAP4 Namespace)

[NAGY Andras <nagya@inf.elte.hu>]

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

> To be honest, I have no idea what the IMAP NAMESPACE thing is good
> for.  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'."

One little addition after reading the NAMESPACE RFC:

This prefix could be figured out by issuing a NAMESPACE command, so
the user could say "the prefix for my personal mailboxes" instead of
"INBOX.".

Nnimap could introduce the `nnimap-prefix' paramter, containing either
a string (the prefix itself) or a symbol (personal, other, shared)
indicating a namespace class from which the prefix should be obtained.
Of course, the latter would yield an error if the namespace class in
question contains more or less than one namespace.


Andras