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MBOX-Line: From tss at iki.fi Tue Dec 29 14:27:48 2009
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To: imap-protocol@u.washington.edu
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From: Timo Sirainen <tss@iki.fi>
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Date: Fri Jun 8 12:34:43 2018
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Subject: [Imap-protocol] Childless noselect mailboxes
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In-Reply-To: <D00B7DFA-492B-4DBE-87C7-A5F294BE8910@umn.edu>
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References: <1262106049.26478.745.camel@timo-desktop>
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<alpine.OSX.2.00.0912290938230.18442@hsinghsing.panda.com>
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<1262111858.26478.842.camel@timo-desktop>
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<alpine.OSX.2.00.0912291042070.18442@hsinghsing.panda.com>
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<1262114250.26478.864.camel@timo-desktop>
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<alpine.OSX.2.00.0912291237311.18442@hsinghsing.panda.com>
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<D00B7DFA-492B-4DBE-87C7-A5F294BE8910@umn.edu>
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Message-ID: <1262125668.26478.927.camel@timo-desktop>
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On Tue, 2009-12-29 at 16:17 -0600, Brian Hayden wrote:
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> > Correction: crappy clients display \NoSelect mailboxes in a
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> > confusing way.
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>
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> Has anyone studied this from a user perspective? I suspect that you'd
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> have to come up with an interaction method that is both new and
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> intuitive (something that is quite the rare gem) to have the concept
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> have any meaning to the user in a client interface -- \NoSelect seems
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> quite foreign to everything else they encounter on a computer system
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> (or in any other interface, for that matter).
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I've never studied, but my personal opinion:
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The most annoying thing that a client can do is pop up a message saying
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"Mailbox isn't selectable." This is what most clients seem to do.
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What I think they should do is (lets assume a GUI client similar to
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TB/Outlook/etc):
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- In the window where it would typically show list of messages or
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message body, it would show a text something like "This mailbox doesn't
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exist, it only contains children." (or something similar to that,
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whatever is the most understandable text to user)
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- It could show also a button: "Create this mailbox."
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- It might also show "Child mailboxes:" and have a list of them. This
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might be too much.
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Hmm. Now that I think of it, I think clients usually show whatever the
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NO reply to SELECT is from server. Maybe I could make that a bit more
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informative.
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