Pat Lashley wrote:
>
> --On Tuesday, November 27, 2001 03:25:54 PM -0500 Casey West
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > On Oct 30, 2001 at 12:08 -0500, Lawrence Greenfield took the soap box and
> > proclaimed: : The spec isn't clear about whether subscriptions should
> > follow the : mailbox or the name. Mark Crispin generally believes they
> > should : follow the name.
> > :
> > : This isn't a trivial thing to fix in general (multiple people might
> > : have a subscription to the mailbox) and I don't think it's worth
> > : changing Cyrus's current behavior.
> >
> > I think subscriptions should follow the mailbox. In the case of a
> > personal folder, when I rename a subscribed folder, I still want to be
> > subscribed to it. If it'sa shared folder, and I'm subscribed to it,
> > and someone renames it, it would suck if I couldn't find it in my
> > subscription list any more.
>
> Then your MUA should give you the option of automatically moving your
> subscription.
>
> > Can you think of a situation where you don't want the subscription to
> > follow the mailbox?
>
> Ok, hows this: I want to rename a shared mailbox to an archival name,
> and then create a new one with the old name. (More efficient than
> copying to a new mailbox, and retains all the flag info.)
>
> After 30 years as a software engineer, I've come up with a few simple
> rules of thumb. One of them says that if you have a choice of ways to
> do something, pick the one that retains the most flexability. In this
> case I believe that means retain the current behavour.
>
> I think a better solution would be to draft an RFC for an IMAP
> extension to add a new command that would be similar to the
> existing rename; but would explicitly update all the subscriptions
> to point to the new mailbox. (Offering this extension would
> imply that the old rename does not affect subscriptions at all
> on this server.)
One thing that I've thought about (and I think Larry and I talked about)
is to do a referral when someone tries to access a mailbox that has been
renamed. IIRC this is what is recommended in place of the deprecated
NEWNAME.
Ken
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