Outlook Express and IMAP folders

[Andrew Morgan]

On Wed, 23 Feb 2005, Andrzej Adam Filip wrote:

> Robert Scussel wrote:
>> Outlook Express likes to have Sent Items under the mailbox, and cyrus has 
>> everything under the inbox. Sice the Sent Items is probably under 
>> /path/to/imap, the user that is using Outlook doesn't have permssions to 
>> write to Sent Items, or Sent Items in "/path/to/imap/Sent Items" doesn't 
>> exist.
>> 
>> You can change Outlook's default save to a folder under Inbox, such as 
>> user.Inbox.Sent Items. This should fix the problem
>
> Or you can put "altnamespace: 1" in your /etc/imapd.conf file.
>
> <quote src="man imapd.conf">
> altnamespace: 0
> (default value=0)
>
> Use the alternate IMAP namespace, where personal folders reside at the
> same level in the hierarchy as  INBOX.
>
> This  option  ONLY  applies  where interaction takes place with the
> client/user.  Currently this is limited to the IMAP protocol (imapd) and
> Sieve scripts (lmtpd).  This option does NOT apply to admin tools such
> as cyradm (admins ONLY),  reconstruct,  quota,  etc.,  NOR  does it
> affect LMTP delivery of messages directly to mailboxes via plusaddressing.
> </quote>

When we migrated to Cyrus IMAP, we found our users were very confused 
until we turned on altnamespace...   :)

 	Andy
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