Changing LIST (again)

Bron Gondwana brong at fastmail.fm
Sun May 19 15:45:06 EDT 2013


On Sun, May 19, 2013, at 11:21 PM, Jeroen van Meeuwen (Kolab Systems) wrote:
> On 2013-05-19 15:07, Bron Gondwana wrote:
> > On Sun, May 19, 2013, at 08:36 PM, Jeroen van Meeuwen (Kolab Systems) 
> > wrote:
> >> 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 :)
> 
> I really, really like calling out stupid clients that do not honour 
> \NoInferiors though...

I guess everyone needs a hobby...

> Can we please keep a sane default of (enforcing) RFC(s)-compliant 
> behaviour?

Default, sure.

> Do you suggest to remove the \NoInferiors flag for deployments with 
> "sub-folder of INBOX w/ altnamespace allowed" type of configurations, or 
> would you keep it around (and simply behave differently by honouring the 
> request instead of returning an error)?

You kind of have to - since you want RFC-compliant clients to be able to
create subfolders of Inbox.  That's the whole point.

Bron.


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