MBOX-Line: From tss at iki.fi  Wed May 30 16:24:32 2007
To: imap-protocol@u.washington.edu
From: Timo Sirainen <tss@iki.fi>
Date: Fri Jun  8 12:34:39 2018
Subject: [Imap-protocol] Vista Mail doesn't handle \NoSelect mailboxes?
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On Wed, 2007-05-30 at 16:00 -0700, Mark Crispin wrote:
> On Thu, 31 May 2007, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> > I think if the client is configured to show only subscribed mailboxes,
> > it's entirely reasonable, and expected by the user, that the mailbox is
> > visible after it is created. So I'd say there's nothing wrong with
> > CREATE+SUBSCRIBE. Automatically subscribing to existing mailboxes is
> > bad, of course.
> 
> That presumes a client "configured to show only subscribed mailboxes".  I 
> don't consider such a client to be reasonable.
> 
> IMHO, there should be a way in the client to show the mailboxes (LIST 
> command) and a separate way to show the subscribed mailboxes.  The former 
> should be the usual hierarchical browser.  The latter is more likely to be 
> a flat (or semi-flat) display.

I guess your view of how subscriptions should work differs significantly
from how other people use them. I like that my subscription list is
almost exactly like the full mailbox list. I've just removed a couple of
mailboxes that I rarely want to look at.

What do you think then the subscriptions should be used for by people
(or clients) who have only private mailboxes?

> I am starting to think that the solution is to remove subscriptions
> from 
> IMAP entirely, and replace it with a mechanism to stores a list of
> IMAP 
> URLs.

What would be their purpose then?
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