[Dovecot] Multiple private namespace question
Timo Sirainen
tss at iki.fi
Sat May 24 23:48:57 EEST 2008
On Sat, 2008-05-24 at 13:33 -0700, Troy Engel wrote:
> Timo Sirainen wrote:
> >
> > But I don't think there are any problems if you make INBOX. namespace
> > the hidden one. Most clients don't care about namespaces.
>
> Hi Timo, thanks for the reply - I understand what you're saying. Can you
> theorize what will happen to the already configured/subscribed users
> (Thunderbird) whose tree looks like:
>
> INBOX
> |_ Sent
> |_ Drafts
>
> ...when I would change the default namespace around and make the empty
> prefix inbox=yes?
The INBOX should point to the same location with both namespaces, so it
doesn't matter which one has inbox=yes.
> Would everything suddenly become "flat" on them and
> cause confusion? Ala:
>
> INBOX
> Sent
> Drafts
Isn't this how it already is if the INBOX. prefix is set? I thought
mailboxes are shown under INBOX only if there was no prefix.
> Would it be correct to assume that all these existing users would be
> fine (because of the hidden INBOX prefix namespace, compatibility mode),
> and only new users would see a flat hierarchy when setting up Thunderbird?
I'm not really an TB expert..
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