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List:       imap
Subject:    Re: Namespaces
From:       Arnt Gulbrandsen <arnt () gulbrandsen ! priv ! no>
Date:       2003-04-06 13:15:34
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Cyrus Daboo writes:
> --On Thursday, April 3, 2003 3:47 PM -0500 Lawrence Greenfield 
> <leg+@andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:
>
> | Many IMAP servers do the "Shared Folders" as a nesting inside of the
> | personal namespace and it works quite well.
>
> Except that it 'pollutes' the personal namespace.

No argument with that.

> It also prevents adding new namespaces after the server has been setup 
> because there is no way of knowing whether an existing user has 
> created a personal mailbox with the same name as the new namespace 
> that needs to be added.

That's a server issue. For some servers it might be impractical, for 
others trivial, so IMHO it's perfectly appropriate that servers may use 
overlapping namespaces. (May, not must.)

--Arnt
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