[Dovecot] Rename public folders

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Sun Jan 16 21:35:48 EET 2011


On Thu, 2011-01-13 at 10:59 -0500, Burian, John wrote:

> A028 NO [CANNOT] Renaming not supported across non-private namespaces.
> 
> I guess this is because renaming a subfolder could potentially break
> subscriptions for other users? Or is it a hard requirement from IMAP
> RFC?
> 
> If the former, is the problem merely very complicated, but eventually
> fixable, or is it just intractable? 

Nothing prevents this from being able to work, but there are several
potential problems, which is why I haven't really even tried to do that
yet.

For example one problem is what should happen to a public mailbox ACLs
when it's renamed to your private namespace? Should they be removed or
not?

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