MBOX-Line: From markrcrispin at panda.com  Tue Feb 17 10:11:30 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
In-Reply-To: <499A9322.4080400@isode.com>
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Message-ID: <alpine.WNT.2.00.0902171000580.3528@Shimo-Tomobiki.Panda.COM>

On Tue, 17 Feb 2009, Alexey Melnikov wrote:
> My personal opinion is that it makes no sense to call LSUB "" "".

That is my personal opinion as

>> i ask because some Clients send us commands like
>> tag lsub "" ""
>> what is the correct response?

Other than telling the user that his client is defective by design?

This abuse of LSUB (which really is only useful for maintaining USENET 
news subscriptions) all started because of a certain cretin at Netscape 
~15 years ago.  Microsoft copied the idiocy, and it persists to this day.

Against stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain.

-- Mark --

http://panda.com/mrc
Science does not emerge from voting, party politics, or public debate.
Si vis pacem, para bellum.

