MBOX-Line: From MRC at Washington.EDU  Fri Jan 25 15:44:50 2008
To: imap-protocol@u.washington.edu
From: Mark Crispin <MRC@Washington.EDU>
Date: Fri Jun  8 12:34:41 2018
Subject: [Imap-protocol] IMAP servers with no INBOX -- any indicators?
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On Fri, 25 Jan 2008, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> I think a lot of clients assume that INBOX exists. Easiest to just create a 
> dummy zero-message read-only virtual INBOX.

I agree with this advice.  This very topic came up many years ago, and the 
general concensus at the time was that clients are not out of line by 
expecting an INBOX.  The specification very strongly implies that clients 
may make that assumption.

-- Mark --

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