[Kolab-devel] IMAP annotation for groupware folder descriptions

[Gunnar Wrobel]

Gunnar Wrobel <wrobel at pardus.de> writes:

> Thomas Arendsen Hein <thomas at intevation.de> writes:
>
>> * Gunnar Wrobel <wrobel at pardus.de> [20070919 09:53]:
>>> Thomas Arendsen Hein <thomas at intevation.de> writes:
>>> > * Gunnar Wrobel <wrobel at pardus.de> [20070918 23:33]:
>>> >> If you use MySQL as the Horde backend it is trivial to support the
>>> >> description feature and there will be users using it. So I doubt that
>>> >> it will be removed. It has already existed a long time and has
>>> >> actually always been "supported" by the Kolab driver within Horde
>>> >> (even the old broken ones). The use of
>>> >> "/vendor/kolab/h-share-attr-desc" originates from the older driver
>>> >> versions.
>>> >
>>> > That's why I'd prefer /vendor/horde/something ... even if other
>>> > clients will implement it, they will be compatible with this horde
>>> > feature here.
>>> 
>>> Ah, forgot to comment on that. While the wording in the Kolab format
>>> specification at
>>> http://kolab.org/doc/kolabformat-2.0rc5-html/c154.html#AEN157 is
>>> rather vague about this topic I assume that the intention of the
>>> paragraph on client specific annotations means that Horde should use
>>> "/vendor/kolab/h-*" for its specific features. 
>>
>> Citing the page:
>>
>>   All folders MUST be annotated with an entry
>>   /vendor/kolab/folder-type containing the attribute value.shared
>>   set to: <type>[.<subtype>]
>>
>>   For other client-specific non standardized types of folders, these
>>   MUST be prefixed with "k-" for KMail, "h-" for Horde, "o-" for
>>   Outlook with the Toltec Connector and "ok-" for Outlook with the
>>   KONSEC Konnektor. E.g. "kolab.o-voicemail".
>>
>> So this h- thing is only meant for the value of the
>> /vendor/kolab/folder-type annotation and can be ignored for our
>> question.
>
> Ah, sorry for that. Yes, I misunderstood that paragraph.
>
> So I would propose to change the corresponding attribute to
>
> /vendor/horde/description
>
> if nobody objects.

Hm, maybe I should object myself and simply check if it wouldn't make
more sense to use the "/comment" annotation described in

http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-daboo-imap-annotatemore-11.txt

I will check if this is possible on the IMAP server.

Cheers,

Gunnar

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