> -----Original Message-----
> From: Noel J. Bergman [mailto:noel@devtech.com]
> Sent: 05 September 2003 19:34
> To: James Developers List
> Subject: RE: IMAP Development Pointers
>
>
> > In fact I was under the impression that INBOX is a reserved folder
> > name, that it should always be there, and you are not allowed to
> > create subfolders of it. I don't think many enforce the
> no-subfolder
> > of INBOX rule, and I may just be remembering wrong.
>
> I haven't read the IMAP RFCs. I do know that Outlook permits
> you to create sub-folders of INBOX.
>
> > As these IMAP stores are developers and we look to share
> POP3 and IMAP
> > stores, the POP3 handler will just know to always user user.INBOX.
>
> This would make sense for when we re-do the repositories, or
> even if we were to rewrite parts of Cornerstone. But the
> current discussion has been to simply to keys, not
> hierarchies as an intermediate solution allowing immediate
> work on IMAP.
>
> Yes, it is trivial to change the James code to use
> user.INBOX. But then admins would have to rename all of
> their existing file system and JDBC repositories to use it.
> THAT is what I am suggesting we avoid by the simple expedient
> of declaring that user.INBOX === user as a unique (special
> case) mapping. If you have an alternative, that's fine, too.
user.INBOX === user is my prefered option as well.
A user should be allowed to go from PO3 to IMAP and back again
and having user.INBOX === user is a lot easier.
>
> --- Noel
>
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