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Re: [imap5] Designing a new replacement protocol for IMAP

Timo Sirainen <tss@iki.fi> Wed, 15 February 2012 14:18 UTC

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From: Timo Sirainen <tss@iki.fi>
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Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 16:18:51 +0200
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On Wed, 2012-02-15 at 14:11 +0000, Tony Finch wrote:
> Bron Gondwana <brong@fastmail.fm> wrote:
> >
> > Folder management is amazingly complex now that all the LIST-EXT
> > stuff is in there, and interactions with "subscriptions" - complete
> > with the whole "subscription has to survive when folder is deleted"
> > funkyness.  It's amazing how the best intentions have created a mess
> > there.
> 
> Is there any reason to keep subscriptions in IMAP 5 ?

Somewhat more generic mailbox tags would be useful. So I could configure
my IMAP client to show a view of only mailboxes related to e.g. "work",
"mobile", etc. This could be done generically by assigning some metadata
tags to mailboxes and having a LIST command that supports filtering
using metadata. Of course clients would have to support it also somehow.

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