Re: Problems with latest imap stuff

[Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@esys.ca>]

On 14 Oct, Osma Ahvenlampi wrote:
> Simon Josefsson <jas@pdc.kth.se> writes:

> Netscape will show all your files in the IMAP folder tree. Mark
> Crispin considers this intentional behaviour and sees nothing wrong in
> accessing any file in your home directory via IMAP. Me, I think the
> extra clutter is confusing to users

An IMAP client can only display what the server tells it is there. If
you configure your IMAP server to export a users home directory as if
that was the message store, that's what the user is going to see. Poor
system administration is something that IMAP can't be blamed for (or
fix).

--lyndon