Pete Maclean (aaddict@maclean.com)
Mon, 17 Dec 2001 14:41:22 -0500
Hi Cyrus,
Thanks for your comment. I chose to deal with this issue by not listing
the true name of the Inbox in such a case. But you made me realize (thanks
again!) that I have a bug. I took care of CREATE okay but not RENAME. If
a user tried to rename a folder to the true name of his Inbox, the
operation would fail all right but the reason given (that the folder
already exists) could be misleading.
Pete
At 01:29 PM 12/17/2001 -0500, Cyrus Daboo wrote:
>--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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