MBOX-Line: From MRC at CAC.Washington.EDU  Wed May 30 16:00:14 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 Thu, 31 May 2007, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> I think if the client is configured to show only subscribed mailboxes,
> it's entirely reasonable, and expected by the user, that the mailbox is
> visible after it is created. So I'd say there's nothing wrong with
> CREATE+SUBSCRIBE. Automatically subscribing to existing mailboxes is
> bad, of course.

That presumes a client "configured to show only subscribed mailboxes".  I 
don't consider such a client to be reasonable.

IMHO, there should be a way in the client to show the mailboxes (LIST 
command) and a separate way to show the subscribed mailboxes.  The former 
should be the usual hierarchical browser.  The latter is more likely to be 
a flat (or semi-flat) display.

I am starting to think that the solution is to remove subscriptions from 
IMAP entirely, and replace it with a mechanism to stores a list of IMAP 
URLs.

-- Mark --

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