[Kolab-devel] Kolab Format specs/Kontact: Question about custom folder types

[Thomas Arendsen Hein]

* Gunnar Wrobel <wrobel at pardus.de> [20071005 16:43]:
> Thomas Arendsen Hein <thomas at intevation.de> writes:
> > * Gunnar Wrobel <wrobel at pardus.de> [20071005 07:32]:
> >> What are other clients supposed to assume about these folders? That
> >> they are also just mail?
> >
> > The Kolab specification obviously doesn't specify other clients.
> 
> Sorry about being unclear. I was referring to another Kolab client. If
> one Kolab client sees a a folder-type of "kolab.fancy-type" what
> should it assume about it?
> 
> I guess it should just consider it as normal mail. But the Kolab
> client might also say: "Ah, this is something I don't know anything
> about so I better hide it from the user since it might be something
> important that another Kolab client needs to have."

The Kolab format specification is unclear about this, but

| For folders created with non Kolab IMAP clients, annotations must
| be preserved. All Kolab clients MUST assume that folders without an
| explicit type set are email folders.

implies for me:
- folders with other annotatinos than /vendor/kolab/folder-type, but
  no folder-type MUST be assumed as email folders, so of course
  display them.
- folders with a folder-type different from "mail" are not mail, so
  SHOULD not be displayed as mail (i.e. hidden).

Maybe this should be added to the specs.

Thomas

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