[Dovecot] IMAP subscriptions - how, for what and why?

[Brian T Glenn]

On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 04:19:34AM -0800, Marc Perkel may have written:
> Timo Sirainen wrote:
> >On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 13:03 +0200, Tom Alsberg wrote:
> >>Again, not a Dovecot issua - but can someone clarify better what IMAP
> >>subscriptions (SUBSCRIBE/UNSUBSCRIBE/LSUB) are and what they are used
> >>for?
> >
> >Pretty much the only point of subscriptions is that you don't have to
> >look at all the mailboxes that server has to offer. This is especially
> >useful if you have tens or hundreds of shared/public mailboxes (eg.
> >mailing lists or some news gateway or whatever).
> 
> Another advantage of the 1.0 version release is that some distributions 
> might include your 0.9x version instead of the alpha because of the 
> alpha name. A 1.0 version will keep people from installing the older and 
> obsolete versions. And that is important I would think.

What in the world does that have to do with this thread?

-- 
Brian T Glenn
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