Re: Gmail

On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 12:06 PM, Michael Peddemors <[email protected]> wrote:
> This is an interesting issue.  Even when my Iphone connects, it has a
> different idea of what special folders are.  And the language issue is another
> one.  I think it behooves the clients to create some form of 'translation'
> layer for the standardized IMAP names.  (Oh, I don't think there is a standard
> yet :)

Google implemented it as "XLIST", and it is on a standards track now
with the link Alexandros sent:

http://www.ietf.org/id/draft-ietf-morg-list-specialuse-01.txt

Nothing to do with an abstraction of language per se...


> On February 12, 2010, Paul Lesniewski wrote:
>> On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 9:33 AM, Tomas Kuliavas
>>
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > 2010.02.12 19:20 Paul Lesniewski rašė:
>> >>   If we add Gmail, we need at least one Gmail-specific fix in the
>> >> code, wherein when FETCHing a message body, their IMAP server does not
>> >> set the Seen flag.  The fix is simple.
>> >
>> > Fix is really simple and does not require changes in source. It is called
>> > "contact software vendor and ask to fix their stuff". Code should not
>> > introduce fixes for third party bugs that violate standards.
>> >
>> > If you add fixes for gmail, you will have to add fixes for any other
>> > broken IMAP server.
>> >
>> >> trash_folder = [Gmail]/Trash
>> >> sent_folder = [Gmail]/Sent Mail
>> >> draft_folder = [Gmail]/Drafts
>> >
>> > Gmail system folder names are localized and depend on translation
>> > selected by end user.
>>
>> Good catch.  Each time a user changes language settings in Gmail, the
>> Drafts, Sent and Trash folder names are changed.  Thus, there is
>> probably no way for SquirrelMail to know what to expect when logging
>> in for the names of these folders.
>>
>> So the compromise I propose is to include "auto_create_special =
>> false" in the presets and add a warning about this issue (e.g., it's
>> prudent for the user to change the SquirrelMail language to match and
>> adjust the Draft/Sent/Trash folder settings in Options-->Folder
>> Preferences).  This will create a situation where those special
>> folders are recognized when both interface languages are set to
>> English and otherwise, the user has to do some manual setup on their
>> own.  Aside from not adding Gmail, I don't see any other viable
>> configuration.

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