[Dovecot] Thunderbird namespace handling

[Thomas Hummel]

On Wed, Jun 09, 2010 at 06:17:49PM +0100, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On ke, 2010-06-09 at 18:58 +0200, Thomas Hummel wrote:
> > On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 07:04:13PM +0100, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2010-04-22 at 15:31 +0200, Thomas Hummel wrote:
> > > 
> > > > I've noticed that Thunderbird (3.0.3) seems to wrongly "repeat" the namespace
> > > > prefix when selecting the top level maildir of a namesapce.
> > > > 
> > > >   hidden = no
> > > >   list = yes
> > > 
> > > This combination is arguably a wrong way to define namespaces.
> > 
> > I missed your reply :
> > 
> > What's wrong with this combination ?
> 
> See this thread:
> http://mailman2.u.washington.edu/pipermail/imap-protocol/2010-May/001076.html 

I've read it but I still don't get the point :

I thought "hidden = no" would advertise this namespace for clients
which support NAMESPACE and that "list = yes" would allow clients which
don't support NAMESPACE to access this namespace ?

What's wrong with that ?

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