MBOX-Line: From markrcrispin at panda.com  Tue Feb 17 10:58:15 2009
To: imap-protocol@u.washington.edu
From: Mark Crispin <markrcrispin@panda.com>
Date: Fri Jun  8 12:34:42 2018
Subject: [Imap-protocol] Rfc-3501 LIST/LSUB
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On Tue, 17 Feb 2009, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> The main reason why I use subscriptions is to hide these mailboxes that
> are forcibly created by some clients, such as "Apple Mail To Do" or
> "Trash" which I really don't care to see (or use even in the clients
> that create them). Wonder if it would be useful in future to be able to
> mark some of these mailboxes as "internal to the client" and perhaps not
> list them even with LIST.

It can be argued that the very existance of such mailboxes is an 
abomination.

I have come to believe that allowing multiple mailboxes in IMAP, as 
opposed to promoting keywords, was a mistake.  Note that this is, 
effectively, what Gmail does.

-- Mark --

http://panda.com/mrc
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep deciding what to eat for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.

