Views on folder hierarchy?

Ken Murchison murch at andrew.cmu.edu
Sat Dec 1 10:38:34 EST 2007


Juergen Kreileder wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a quite large folder hierarchy.  On mobile clients I'd like to
> have a limited view on this hierarchy, i.e. I'd like to see only
> important folders.  Unfortunately the mobile clients don't understand
> subscriptions.
> 
> So, how would I go on to get a different limited view on my mailboxes.

Enable the 'imapmagicplus' option in imapd.conf.  Then authenticate with 
'userid+' in your mobile client.  This will cause the server to only 
LIST subscribed mailboxes.  Outlook on my Treo still sucks, but this 
makes it slightly less so.


-- 
Kenneth Murchison
Systems Programmer
Project Cyrus Developer/Maintainer
Carnegie Mellon University


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