MBOX-Line: From jjmckay at comaxis.com  Fri Feb  6 15:43:24 2015
To: imap-protocol@u.washington.edu
From: Jeff McKay <jjmckay@comaxis.com>
Date: Fri Jun  8 12:34:53 2018
Subject: [Imap-protocol] Use of namespace in LIST command
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This customer was telling me that Thunderbird sees the folders just 
fine, so I did a trace of TB's traffic and found it
is doing both LIST and LSUB.  To be honest I had not heard of the LSUB 
command before.  It seems to me that retrieving
subscribed folders is going to give a subset of the entire folder list, 
and I want the entire list.  But in this case, LIST by
itself leaves off all the folders we were missing.  In tests with some 
other imap servers my theory is correct - LIST gives
me what I want, except for this case.  So I can work around it for this 
guy but I'm wondering if doing both commands
(then eliminating duplicates) is the best practice.

On 2/6/2015 10:56 AM, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:
>> For example here are a couple attempts. What does the message "mh 
>> format names disabled" mean?
>
> The #mh namespaces refer to the MH mua, which uses a local message 
> store in the user's home directory.  If the user uses MH, the #mh 
> namespace can be used to access those folders via UW IMAPD.
>
> The message about their not being a .mh_profile indicates that the 
> user is not using MH.  Therefore the #mh namespaces don't apply to 
> them, and nothing will show up under them.
>
> Or perhaps they have carried across an old set of MH folders, but 
> aren't actively using MH any more.  In that case, they might now have 
> an .mh_profile file.  If this *is* the case, have them
>
>   echo Path: Mail > ${HOME}/.mh_profile
>
> and it should start working.  (Replace Mail with the path to their MH 
> folder store if they don't use the default ${HOME}/Mail.)
>
> http://www.nongnu.org/nmh/ is a good starting point for information on 
> the current release of the MH mailer.
>
> --lyndon
>
>
>


