MBOX-Line: From MRC at CAC.Washington.EDU  Wed Jan  9 19:00:10 2008
To: imap-protocol@u.washington.edu
From: Mark Crispin <MRC@CAC.Washington.EDU>
Date: Fri Jun  8 12:34:41 2018
Subject: [Imap-protocol] Renaming mailboxes under their children
In-Reply-To: <1199933600.8850.71.camel@hurina>
References: <1199933600.8850.71.camel@hurina>
Message-ID: <alpine.WNT.1.00.0801091856230.3080@Tomobiki-Cho.CAC.Washignton.EDU>

On Thu, 10 Jan 2008, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> I guess nothing in IMAP protocol requires this to be done either way,
> but does someone think there's any point in allowing:
> RENAME box box/child/box

UW imapd does not allow this.  You have to first rename box to something 
else, then rename it to box/child/box.

Nobody has ever complained.  Your suggestion that dragging and dropping 
can cause this to happen by accident and break clients seems to me to be a 
pretty compelling reason not to do it.

-- Mark --

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