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MBOX-Line: From dave at cridland.net Sun Jan 27 01:24:19 2008
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To: imap-protocol@u.washington.edu
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From: Dave Cridland <dave@cridland.net>
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Date: Fri Jun 8 12:34:41 2018
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Subject: [Imap-protocol] IMAP servers with no INBOX -- any indicators?
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In-Reply-To: <alpine.WNT.1.00.0801251542310.3096@Tomobiki-Cho.CAC.Washignton.EDU>
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References: <08Jan25.123007pst."58696"@synergy1.parc.xerox.com>
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<978EF551-4028-4CC6-972F-2BF8451706B2@iki.fi>
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<alpine.WNT.1.00.0801251542310.3096@Tomobiki-Cho.CAC.Washignton.EDU>
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Message-ID: <19909.1201425859.710608@peirce.dave.cridland.net>
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On Fri Jan 25 23:44:50 2008, Mark Crispin wrote:
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> On Fri, 25 Jan 2008, Timo Sirainen wrote:
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>> I think a lot of clients assume that INBOX exists. Easiest to just
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>> create a dummy zero-message read-only virtual INBOX.
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> I agree with this advice. This very topic came up many years ago,
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> and the general concensus at the time was that clients are not out
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> of line by expecting an INBOX. The specification very strongly
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> implies that clients may make that assumption.
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I agree with the advice, but I have to say I thought that the
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consensus was to do this because of common client limitations, rather
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than with any real blessing from the spec, nor because clients were
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anything but out of line.
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The specification merely says that if a mailbox looks like INBOX,
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then it is. (ie, if its path is case-insensitively equal to "INBOX",
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then it must behave like INBOX). I don't think there's anything
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stating that it must exist, nor any real implication, is there?
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That said, if we revved IMAP, I'd be in favour of making the
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existence of INBOX a SHOULD, if not a MUST, on the grounds of running
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code and interop. (Or at least not against).
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Dave.
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--
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