Hi *,
Before going back to the details in this discussion I want to point out that the whole thing turned out to be really relevant with existing clients: The Horde based Kolab WebClient expects the behavior as shown by Cyrus IMAP and fails to show "user/A@example.com/INBOX" as dovecot currently lists A's INBOX.
While this might be considered a bug in Horde it shows that existing clients actually highly depend on the behavior as seen in Cyrus IMAP.
Timo Sirainen tss@iki.fi writes:
On Tue, 2009-03-17 at 18:20 +0100, Sascha Wilde wrote:
- "user/A@example.com" really should be accessible to user B. Why is it listed with "\Noselect"?
I'm not sure it should be accessible. This is most likely not A's INBOX.
That's the other folder you're trying to access:
- "user/A@example.com/INBOX" does not exist, so the error message is correct, but why does it appear in the listing in the first place?
This might very well be true, but in this case dovecot behaves different From cyrus -- which might still be RfC conforming (I haven't checked, but from my memories the RfC is very unspecific on these topics anyway).
Are you talking about 1) or 2)?
I'm talking about 1 vs 2 if you will. ;-) I expected "user/A@example.com" to be A's INBOX, while BH pointed out, that with the current implementation it is more likely that "user/A@example.com/INBOX" actually refers to A's INBOX.
If 1), RFC doesn't talk about it. And I'm not really sure if it's a good idea to default the A@example.com to be the same as INBOX. If Cyrus does that,
Yes, cyrus does that.
does it then not show the A@example.com/INBOX?
No, it doesn't as, the INBOX of A is referred to as "user/A@example.com", so "A@example.com/INBOX" would actually be an folder named "INBOX". Which would be displayed as "INBOX/INBOX" from A's point of view:
User A: when shared to User B maps to: INBOX user/A@example.com INBOX/foo user/A@example.com/foo INBOX/foo/bar user/A@example.com/foo/bar
cheers sascha
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