MBOX-Line: From dkarp at zimbra.com  Mon Nov 16 11:35:13 2009
To: imap-protocol@u.washington.edu
From: Dan Karp <dkarp@zimbra.com>
Date: Fri Jun  8 12:34:43 2018
Subject: [Imap-protocol] IMAP vs. shared mailboxes
In-Reply-To: <alpine.OSX.2.00.0911161112200.244@hsinghsing.panda.com>
Message-ID: <270134446.1258.1258400112974.JavaMail.root@dogfood.zimbra.com>

> Are there any IMAP clients that depend upon being able to do a
> wildcard in listing other users to load their list of accessible
> mailboxes?  That is, given a server that advertises a namespace of
>  	(("" "/")) (("/" "/")) (("/Public/" "/"))
> 
> How many IMAP clients routinely expect to be able to do
>  	tag LIST "" /*

Thunderbird's been doing something like this for quite a while.
Although they may request just a list of users with visible
mailboxes (e.g. tag LIST "" /%).

I think they no longer throw up an alert dialog if the server responds
NO to such a request.

