[imp] Server "namespace" not hiding INBOX. when creating folders

[Joshua E Warchol]

Seems like an arbitrary requirement. Why not just see if they are equal? I
can't be the only person running with this setup. Am I mistaken in my
claim that all folders (other than shared folders) within Courier-IMAP must
be subfolders of the INBOX??? 

I'm not trying to be trouble, I really just want to understand this. I fully
understand what you both have said, and I'm not saying you're wrong about
how it works, I'm just saying "Why does it work that way?". Just curious. 

On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 04:54:18PM -0500, Chuck Hagenbuch wrote:
> Quoting Joshua E Warchol <jwarchol@dsl.net>:
> 
> > I can understand how that might work with some IMAP servers, but
> > Courier-IMAP
> > requires that all subfolders be off of INBOX, so folders must be set to
> > INBOX. . So it appears that with Courier-IMAP, if you don't want your
> > folders
> > to appear as INBOX.Sales or INBOX.Support, you must also set namespace
> > to
> > INBOX. 
> > 
> > Does this make sense? Has anyone solved this another way?
> 
> If you set both to INBOX., you are telling IMP to create all folders as 
> INBOX.INBOX.foldername. Marcus was right - you set one or the other. 
> Folders makes _everything_ be in there; namespace is just something which 
> is stripped out if it's there, and used when creating folders.
> 
> If you want to allow folders outside of the INBOX. hierarchy - like 
> Courier's shared folders - use namespace. If not, use folders. Never use 
> both.
> 
> -chuck
> 
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