Actually, the implementations that treat "subscribed" as an aspect of a mailbox are broken. The spec explicitly requires that you be able to subscribe to non-existant mailboxes, if "subscribed" is an attribute of the mailbox, then you can't do that :)
Yet another thing we got burned on in Exchange :) Funny how that is. Larry Osterman -----Original Message----- From: Barry Leiba [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 12:39 PM To: IMAP Mailing List Subject: Re: RENAME, once more > Another problem came to my mind though: Should RENAME affect list of > subscribed folders? Logically I'd say yes, but there's nothing in spec > about that. Nothing explicit? I thought there was. Mark's intent is that it should NOT affect the subscribed list, since he intends it to be exactly that: a list. Many implementations treat "subscribed" as an aspect of a mailbox, though, and for those implementations the subscription goes with the mailbox when the name changes. The problem is that what you really WANT is dependent upon the situation. Take these two examples: (1) CREATE PROJECT-APPLE SUBSCRIBE PROJECT-APPLE ...the Apple project gets renamed to "Banana" by management... RENAME PROJECT-APPLE PROJECT-BANANA (2) CREATE PAYCHECKS-CURRENT SUBSCRIBE PAYCHECKS-CURRENT ...the year ends... RENAME PAYCHECKS-CURRENT PAYCHECKS-2002 CREATE PAYCHECKS-CURRENT Barry -- Barry Leiba, Internet Messaging Technology ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.research.ibm.com/people/l/leiba
