[imp] Display of folders from Cyrus IMAPD

Aleksandar Milivojevic alex at milivojevic.org
Thu Apr 20 13:15:31 PDT 2006


Quoting Michael M Slusarz <slusarz at horde.org>:

> But the conclusions were, simply put - users should *not* be expected
> to understand the concept of namespaces (and this is precisely what
> the RFCs say).  Creating a folder should *not* require the user to
> have to manually insert 'INBOX.' before the folder name.  Just because
> power users understand what namespaces are, doesn't mean the average
> user does.  I understand namespaces.  You understand namespaces.  But
> my mom doesn't understand namespaces.  My brother doesn't understand
> namespaces.  Etc.

You definetely made couple of good points.  And I would tend to agree.  
  If IMP was the only mail client I was using.  However, with IMP  
being the only mail client I know is using namespace info in this way,  
it is sure to be confusing to see your folders displayed one way in  
IMP, and as something completely different in everything else...   
Especially to grandma who doesn't know anything about namespaces (and  
simply got used to see her folders as subfolders of INBOX).

Anyhow.  Where my private subfolders appear in display was only minor  
thing to me.  My biggest grief was seeing that strange mix of private  
and public folders at the same level.  However, if this is something  
that was already being addressed, I guess I shouldn't complain (too  
much) ;-)

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