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From: Arnt Gulbrandsen <arnt@gulbrandsen.priv.no>
Date: Fri Jun  8 12:34:37 2018
Subject: [Imap-protocol] IMAP/Pine List query
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Mark Crispin writes:
> On Thu, 3 Aug 2006, Mark Crispin wrote:
>> You also missed the point of my comment; I asked Richard if his mail 
>> store did not have INBOX.  I asked because he said that he felt that 
>> no untagged LIST results should be returned for "tag LIST INBOX %", 
>> yet his hierarchy had /inbox which suggested that there was, indeed, 
>> a mailbox that has the role of INBOX in his server.
>
> That, in turn, means that his server should have INBOX, regardless of 
> whether there is this other name of /inbox that can access that data.

Absolutely. "select INBOX" must work, no question about it. That doesn't 
mean that INBOX has any special meaning when used as reference name - 
there's nothing which says that the "foo/bar" example doesn't apply to 
INBOX just as to any other mailbox name or level of hierarchy.

Arnt

