/Noinferiors on INBOX

[Ken Murchison]

Morgan Sackett wrote:
> 
> Morgan Sackett wrote:
> 
> > John A. Tamplin wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> 1.5 did not have altnamespace, it was always INBOX.Trash etc.
> >>
> >> What exactly is the problem with having \Noinferiors set on INBOX?
> >> In altnamespace, it does not have any subfolders. Ie, if I have
> >> user/jtampli and user/jtampli/test, that will show up as INBOX and
> >> test, and test is not a child of INBOX.  What client has a problem
> >> with this arrangement?
> >>
> > None so far.  It's when I have it switched around that they can't see
> > it.  It seems that the default behavior changed since 2.0.16.  I would
> > use that version, but I couldn't get lmtpd from that release to listen.
> >
> Under further investigation, it seems that with "altnamespace=no", the
> clients think that the new namespace is "INBOX./".   I'll look through
> the code to see if the hierarchy separators are getting set incorrectly
> anywhere.

Your client is screwed.  The personal namespace will _never_ be shown as
"INBOX./"

I'm guessing that your client is not smart enough to switch namespaces
on the fly as you're changing altnamespace.

The behavior that has been explained to you by Rob and John is correct. 
I should know, I wrote the code.

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