Can we get back on topic guys?
Ok, maybe someone can enlighten me.
Can IMAP servers, any IMAP server just delete mail without a client requesting that it doe so?
Brent
Quoting Gregory Bond gnb@itga.com.au:
Chris Green wrote:
Thus a folder called 'holidays' is actually a directory called 'INBOX.holidays' and a folder called 'holidays/france' is a directory called 'INBOX.holidays.france'. Why any sort of mail server would want to construct a folder hierarchy like this I can never understand.
IMAP pretty much requires that you can find all the folder names pretty quickly. Having folders stored like this means you can find all folders with a single directory scan, without having to walk a whole filesystem tree.
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