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List:       cyrus-info
Subject:    cannot retrieve mail in desktop client
From:       awilliam () whitemice ! org (Adam Tauno Williams)
Date:       2011-06-30 16:58:43
Message-ID: 1309453123.3000.6.camel () linux-yu4c ! site
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On Thu, 2011-06-30 at 09:52 -0700, Andrew Morgan wrote:
> This CREATE fails because your user does not have permission to create a 
> top-level mailbox.  It should instead be trying to create "INBOX.Notes". 
> I don't remember where the mailbox prefix / namespace is configured in 
> Outlook, but you need to set it to "INBOX.".
> An alternative is to to set altnamespace:1 in imapd.conf, which will 
> present your folders to IMAP clients like:
> INBOX
> Sent
> Trash
> I think people are more comfortable with this structure, so that's how we 
> run it here.

+1

I think every site I've encountered has  altnamespace: 1   Most IMAP
clients [correctly or not] seem to assume that.


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