[Dovecot] Running a dovecot IMAPS server

[Timo Sirainen]

On Sun, 2007-09-16 at 20:56 -0700, Troy Engel wrote:
> IMAP allows folders present on the server which are not presented to the 
> client when it logs in, hence the idea of subscribing. Unsubscribed 
> folders are great for archiving old stuff that you don't really need to 
> see but need to keep around. By not subscribing after you renamed the 
> folder to include a dot it remained invisible to your client.

This is actually client-specific, some clients don't support
subscriptions at all and others can be configured to use or not use
them.

I've written a bit more about how I think they should be implemented in
http://www.imapwiki.org/ClientImplementation/MailboxList ->
Subscriptions.

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