MBOX-Line: From tss at iki.fi  Wed Nov 18 10:53:38 2009
To: imap-protocol@u.washington.edu
From: Timo Sirainen <tss@iki.fi>
Date: Fri Jun  8 12:34:43 2018
Subject: [Imap-protocol] wildcards in other users' namespace
In-Reply-To: <alpine.OSX.2.00.0911181030030.244@hsinghsing.panda.com>
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Message-ID: <1258570418.3022.660.camel@timo-desktop>

On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 10:33 -0800, Mark Crispin wrote:
> Besides Cyrus, what other servers offer a wildcard in the userid field for 
> other users?
> 
> For example, given a server which exports
>  	(("" "/")) (("/Users/" "/")) (("/Public" "/"))
> 
> what servers permit a client to do:
>  	tag LIST "" /Users/*

Dovecot, if configured to do so. And of course not all users, only those
that have mailboxes with +l permission to LISTing user.

> To follow-up on my previous question, what clients besides Thunderbird 
> attempt to do such a command?

If that didn't work, I think shared namespaces would be almost unusable
in most IMAP clients. Clients don't support accessing mailboxes that
they can't LIST (or LSUB, but subscribing would again require LIST to
show them).

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