MBOX-Line: From lyndon at orthanc.ca  Wed May 30 11:40:25 2007
To: imap-protocol@u.washington.edu
From: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca>
Date: Fri Jun  8 12:34:39 2018
Subject: [Imap-protocol] Vista Mail doesn't handle \NoSelect mailboxes?
In-Reply-To: <alpine.OSX.0.99.0705301048240.11683@pangtzu.panda.com>
References: <alpine.OSX.0.99.0705301048240.11683@pangtzu.panda.com>
Message-ID: <20070530113546.Q27473@orthanc.ca>

> Why any client believes that it is reasonable to SUBSCRIBE a 
> \NoSelect name escapes me.

Why not?  It's perfectly valid to subscribe to a folder that doesn't even 
exist.  I don't see any difference between being subscribed to a 
non-existent folder and a \noselect folder; you can't select either one, 
but subscribe doesn't provide a guarantee that you could anyway.

--lyndon


