MBOX-Line: From tss at iki.fi  Fri Jan 25 12:45:58 2008
To: imap-protocol@u.washington.edu
From: Timo Sirainen <tss@iki.fi>
Date: Fri Jun  8 12:34:41 2018
Subject: [Imap-protocol] IMAP servers with no INBOX -- any indicators?
In-Reply-To: <08Jan25.123007pst."58696"@synergy1.parc.xerox.com>
References: <08Jan25.123007pst."58696"@synergy1.parc.xerox.com>
Message-ID: <978EF551-4028-4CC6-972F-2BF8451706B2@iki.fi>

On 25.1.2008, at 22.30, Bill Janssen wrote:

> I'm working on my IMAP server again (finally got STARTTLS working),
> and one of the issues I see is that one client, Thunderbird, seems to
> stubbornly insist on trying to select the inbox, to which I say "NO",
> because I'm exporting a file system, so there's no INBOX.

I think a lot of clients assume that INBOX exists. Easiest to just  
create a dummy zero-message read-only virtual INBOX.

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