Re: [Evolution] Evo - First Class, IMAP (again)

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

the bnf grammar says a mailbox is:

 mailbox ::= "INBOX" | astring

That makes it pretty clear.


On Mon, 2002-05-06 at 21:02, Martin Skjöldebrand wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Further to the problem I reported friday, I skimmed the IMAP RFC and found
>
> 5.1.    Mailbox Naming
>
>    The interpretation of mailbox names is implementation-dependent.
>    However, the case-insensitive mailbox name INBOX is a special name
>    reserved to mean "the primary mailbox for this user on this server".
>
> Is there anywhere else in the RFC this is mentioned? Otherwise it is quite
> possible to interprete it as that the primary mailbox SHOULD be called INBOX but

It seems pretty clear to me what it means.

> if it is called something else (i.e. Mailbox) you cannot use name INBOX for
> anything.

> Thus Evo would be too rigid in assuming that the primary inbox is called INBOX -
> on the other hand, FC shouldn't crash when a client stubbornly looks for the
> non-existant INBOX mailbox.

evolution will still work if it can't open the imap INBOX, so its not
really an issue we need to do anything about.

> /Martin S.
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