On 1/26/10 10:40 AM, "John Ford" <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 3) use a trash folder. What people expect more, but leads to issues with >> multiple clients all using different folders, and of course, the >> "but-i-deleted-it-no-you-really-didn't-you-have-to-empty-the-trash" calls. > > In this case Letters could examine the IMAP folder structure and look for > "Trash", "Deleted Items", etc. (ie, all the trash folders used by the > popular/usual clients) and use whichever folder it finds. Failing an obvious > folder Letters would make its own. > > The multiple trash folders issue is definitely a pain but there aren't so many > options for folder names that we couldn't check for each of them and use one > so that Letters isn't part of the problem. That's how it gets done now. Clients have a 'standard' name and if they can't find that, they create it. Assuming they're allowed to create server folders. The better clients let you pick -- John C. Welch Writer/Analyst Bynkii.com Mac and other opinions [email protected] _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list List help: http://lists.ranchero.com/listinfo.cgi/email-init-ranchero.com
