MBOX-Line: From tss at iki.fi  Sun Mar 11 17:22:06 2007
To: imap-protocol@u.washington.edu
From: Timo Sirainen <tss@iki.fi>
Date: Fri Jun  8 12:34:38 2018
Subject: [Imap-protocol] mailbox hierarchy conventions?
In-Reply-To: <07Mar11.154843pst."57996"@synergy1.parc.xerox.com>
References: <07Mar11.154843pst."57996"@synergy1.parc.xerox.com>
Message-ID: <25058044-27CA-4FF9-81F0-294AA4D81AEF@iki.fi>

On 12.3.2007, at 1.48, Bill Janssen wrote:

> I'm reading a lot on the Web about Apple Mail and its notion that all
> mailboxes be sub-mailboxes of INBOX, apparently because a popular IMAP
> server does it that way.

I'm not completely sure what you mean by this. If the server lists  
all mailboxes under INBOX and you haven't set "IMAP Path Prefix" to  
INBOX/ in Apple Mail, then it will list all the mailboxes under  
INBOX. But I don't think this is the intended way to use it.

My server doesn't put mailboxes under INBOX, and I'm using Apple Mail  
just fine. The non-INBOXes are listed under a separate "tss@iki.fi"  
item.

One Apple Mail bug that I have heard of is that it uses '/' as the  
hierarchy separator even though server uses something else. But I  
haven't been able to reproduce that bug for some reason.
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