[Imap-protocol] IMAP servers with no INBOX -- any indicators?

[Timo Sirainen]

On 25.1.2008, at 22.30, Bill Janssen wrote:


> I'm working on my IMAP server again (finally got STARTTLS working),

> and one of the issues I see is that one client, Thunderbird, seems to

> stubbornly insist on trying to select the inbox, to which I say "NO",

> because I'm exporting a file system, so there's no INBOX.


I think a lot of clients assume that INBOX exists. Easiest to just  
create a dummy zero-message read-only virtual INBOX.

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