MBOX-Line: From mrc at CAC.Washington.EDU  Wed May 30 12:48:02 2007
To: imap-protocol@u.washington.edu
From: Mark Crispin <mrc@CAC.Washington.EDU>
Date: Fri Jun  8 12:34:39 2018
Subject: [Imap-protocol] Vista Mail doesn't handle \NoSelect mailboxes?
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On Wed, 30 May 2007, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:
> Which effectively says the subscription database is decoupled from the actual 
> folders.

I agree.  Which makes the practice of mass-subscribe then only using LSUB 
all the more wrong.

> I always thought that MAY was a bit of a blemish, but then again 
> most implementations botch subscribe so badly that it's pointless worrying 
> about it.

What happened way back was that some implementations accepted any 
arbitrary string and added it to the subscription list, and others 
insisted that it be an extant mailbox.

It was a mistake that LSUB behaved like LIST.  LSUB should have taken just 
a single argument and returned no flags or hierarchy delimiter.

-- Mark --

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