Changing LIST (again)

[Bron Gondwana]

On Sun, May 19, 2013, at 08:36 PM, Jeroen van Meeuwen (Kolab Systems) wrote:
> On 2013-05-02 07:29, Bron Gondwana wrote:
> > One of my release goals for Cyrus 2.5 is to be correct in our
> > implementation of every standard that we claim to support.
> > 
> > This is why I emailed the list last week asking if anyone is using the
> > intermediate SPECIALUSE representation in git.  Since there was no
> > reply, I'm assuming it will be OK :)  I've just started testing it 
> > into
> > production at FastMail, and will roll it out to all our users later 
> > this
> > week. Assuming performance is acceptable, I'll push that upstream.
> > 
> > Meanwhile, there's one glaring problem remaining, as evidenced by 
> > Timo's
> > imaptest tool.  Our LIST-EXTENDED implementation is broken in some
> > places. I've already had reports of users of recent versions of some
> > clients having problems with it.  That sucks.
> > 
> > Rob M (CC'd) and I had a good talk about it yesterday.  We're looking 
> > at
> > switching the default at FastMail to use altnamespace - it works 
> > better
> > with Outlook 2013 and also with some phones.  One problem is that you
> > can't create subfolders of Inbox.
> > 
> > We've looked at the standard, and we don't see any reason why we can't
> > allow them,
> 
> The clients that do create (allow) a sub-folder of the INBOX (to be 
> created) apparently do not adhere to the \NoInferiors flag...
> 
> Should you make the change to allow sub-folders (of the INBOX) to in 
> fact be created (while using altnamespace), would that eliminate the use 
> of \NoInferiors?

Indeed it would :)

Bron.