On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 12:43:39PM +0200, Sebastian Hagedorn wrote: > --On 13. Oktober 2010 17:50:55 -0400 Bron Gondwana > <brong@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > >On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 05:27:32PM -0300, Lucas Zinato Carraro wrote: > >>With Thunderbird 3.1.3 i can subscribe only in folders located in > >>Backend1 > >> > >>where my account "lucas.carraro" exist. > >>The other folder in backend2 are not avaiable for me: > > > >Actually, you're subscribing fine - we're just not showing them. Oops. > > > >I know exactly which change fixed this - it's an obviously over-eager > >patch that I applied for FastMail because users were complaining about > >non-existant mailboxes appearing in their list view - things that were > >subscribed ages ago, and appearing despite not being real. > > just so I get that straight: does that affect all instances of > subscriptions to non-existent mailboxes? If so that should > definitely be made an option only. I agree that we have more users > complain about deleted folders still showing up in the GUI of their > client than there are people who actually use that as a feature, but > as long as section 6.3.6 of RFC 3501 reads like the following, we > just have to live with that: It doesn't remove them, it just doesn't show them in LSUB. And that's the issue here - the backend isn't showing them in the LSUB response any more. > A server MAY validate the mailbox argument to SUBSCRIBE to verify > that it exists. However, it MUST NOT unilaterally remove an > existing mailbox name from the subscription list even if a mailbox > by that name no longer exists. This is an option. > Note: This requirement is because a server site can > choose to routinely remove a mailbox with a well-known > name (e.g., "system-alerts") after its contents expire, > with the intention of recreating it when new contents > are appropriate. And we never do this :) So we're complient - we just aren't displaying subscriptions for non-existent folders. Bron. ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/
