mailboxes and capitalisation

Steffen Kaiser skdovecot at smail.inf.fh-brs.de
Tue Dec 13 15:16:16 UTC 2016


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On Tue, 13 Dec 2016, Tanstaafl wrote:
> On 12/13/2016 4:48 AM, Thorsten Hater <thorsten.hater at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I have set up a series of special-use mailboxes in the default namespace
>> differing by capitalisation of the names, mainly to capture multiple
>> mailboxes
>> with autoexpunge
>>
>> namespace inbox {
>>   ...
>>   mailbox Trash {
>>     auto        = no
>>     autoexpunge = 30d
>>     special_use = \Trash
>>   }
>>   mailbox trash {
>>     auto        = no
>>     autoexpunge = 30d
>>     special_use = \Trash
>>   }
>
> Ugh... why create such a huge pain point for yourself?
>
> I would never allow case sensitivity for usernames, or mail storage.
> Makes no sense.

it starts with missing standards and device- or application-specific ways 
to do the same thing.

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Steffen Kaiser
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