MBOX-Line: From janssen at parc.com  Sun Jan 27 13:00:18 2008
To: imap-protocol@u.washington.edu
From: Bill Janssen <janssen@parc.com>
Date: Fri Jun  8 12:34:41 2018
Subject: [Imap-protocol] IMAP servers with no INBOX -- any indicators? 
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> The specification merely says that if a mailbox looks like INBOX,  
> then it is. (ie, if its path is case-insensitively equal to "INBOX",  
> then it must behave like INBOX). I don't think there's anything  
> stating that it must exist, nor any real implication, is there?

I think there's a pretty clear implication that it may not exist.

It's the text in 6.3.8, the LIST command, 

      ``The special name INBOX is included in the output from LIST, if 
      INBOX is supported by this server for this user and if the 
      uppercase string "INBOX" matches the interpreted reference and 
      mailbox name arguments with wildcards as described above.  The 
      criteria for omitting INBOX is whether SELECT INBOX will return 
      failure...''

Bill

