Yep, you're right, I'm wrong. Forgive me for being so old that my primary memory of IMAP was prior to the implementation of "Subscribe". :-)
Regards, Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael I'll be at TEC'2009! http://www.tec2009.com/vegas/index.php -----Original Message----- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2009 7:39 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Rules On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 4:37 PM, Michael B. Smith <mich...@theessentialexchange.com> wrote: > No. IMAP only recognizes subfolders of INBOX. (At least that's true for > IMAPrev1 which is what Exchange supports.) I'm sorry, but I believe you are completely wrong on this one. :) I've used plenty of old Unix IMAP servers, with ancient crufty versions of Pine, that had folders outside of INBOX, and they worked just fine. I just double-checked the RFCs. They clearly state that, outside of the "INBOX" special name, the interpretation of mailbox names is implementation-dependent. It's entirely up to the IMAP server to generate the mailbox names, and it can do just about anything it wants. They do specify that if a hierarchy is used, it must use a single separator character and read left-to-right, but that's it. I just tried Outlook Express against our Exchange 2003 server for my account, and it happily displayed all my folders, including my "Saved Mail" folder (which is rooted under my mailbox top-level object, not under "Inbox"), and also all the Public Folders I have access to. References for IMAP protocol spec: RFC-1730 (IMAP Version 4; 1994) http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1730#section-5.1 RFC-2060 (IMAP Ver 4 Rev 1; 1996) http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2060#section-5.1 RFC-3501 (IMAP Version 4 Rev 1; 2003) http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3501#section-5.1 -- Ben ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja ~ ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja ~
