[Dovecot] Some of my IMAP Folders vanished in some MUAs

[bhayden at umn.edu]

On Aug 3 2007, Charles Marcus wrote:

>Eh? Folder subscription is such a basic feature/function of IMAP that I 
>would not blame the MUA in this case, I'd blame the user... ;)

Well... it's irritating that the usual ways of dealing with SUBSCRIBE and 
LSUB make subscriptions break if (for example) the client's 'IMAP root' 
setting varies from one machine to another--even if the different settings 
are functionally equivalent, say, 'mail' and '~/mail' when the server's 
base dir is set to user's $HOME.

Clients and most servers could do a better job of being intelligent about 
some of that stuff. I realize you don't want to be too fancy, but... yeah. 
It's easy to blame the user, but the problem is usually more in the 
organization's instruction and guidance, which can be a lot harder to 
handle. No reason not to try to make things easier on everyone involved.

(Personally, I just tell people not to use subs. :P )

-Brian