renaming INBOX

Patrick Boutilier boutilpj at ednet.ns.ca
Sat Mar 16 08:14:08 EDT 2019


On 3/15/19 4:43 AM, Marco wrote:
> Il 14/03/2019 16:29, Patrick Boutilier ha scritto:
>> On 3/14/19 11:48 AM, Marco wrote:
>>> Il 13/03/2019 09:16, Marco ha scritto:
>>>> Il 12/03/2019 13:30, Ken Murchison ha scritto:
>>>>> If I remember correctly, Cyrus only permits the owner of the INBOX 
>>>>> to rename it.  Proxy authenticate as name at example.com and try again.
>>>>
>>>> Hello Ken,
>>>>
>>>>   I tried with proxy authentication. It is the same. The operation 
>>>> is not allowed:
>>>
>>> Ops, sorry, I'm confusing myself. I confirm that with proxy 
>>> authentication it works as described by the RFC.
>>>
>>> I can rename the INBOX :)
>>
>> RFC says:
>>
>> Renaming INBOX is permitted, and has special behavior.  It moves
>> all messages in INBOX to a new mailbox with the given name, leaving 
>> INBOX empty.
>>
>>
>> So you still have an INBOX right? Just an empty one and new mail still 
>> gets delivered to INBOX?
> 
> Oh yes, of course :)

Ok.

Before reading the RFC I thought you were trying to "rename" INBOX to 
another name and have Cyrus deliver new mail to the new name. I 
misunderstood. :-)



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