Cyrus Daboo (daboo@cyrusoft.com)
Mon, 17 Dec 2001 13:29:04 -0500
--On Monday, December 17, 2001 10:02 AM -0800 Mark Crispin
<MRC@cac.washington.edu> wrote:
> You seem to be distracted by the notion that the INBOX is sometimes
> reachable by some other string on some systems. That is a detail that is
> of no importance whatsoever, thanks to the foresight of IMAP's design.
Actually I have come acrosss cases where users are confused by having a
second mailbox in thier hierarchy which appears to be a duplicate of INBOX.
They usually don't appreciate that this is the INBOX but with a different
name. I don't know this actually happened, but one can conceive of a
situation where a confused user will delete and expunge all message in the
'duplicate' mailbox because they believe they are duplicates and not
originals.
IMHO The best solution in this case is to have the server not return the
duplicate name when asked to LIST of LSUB it. The server then has to reject
CREATE or RENAME's that try to use the duplicate name.
-- Cyrus Daboo
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