disabling non-mail folders via IMAP - what does it break?

[Erik M Jacobs]

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On 10/09/2013 04:45 AM, Torsten Grote wrote:
> On Tuesday 08 October 2013 16:21:20 Erik M Jacobs wrote:
>> 1) Would disabling those folders being available (by default) via
>> IMAP break anything (ex: kontact)? Our current clients are
>> primarily using Mac Mail and Thunderbird only.
> 
> Maybe Thunderbird has an option to hide those folders (local
> subscription?). Unsubscribing from those folders will indeed break
> the functionality that relies on them.

Thunderbird has no functionality that relies on them. In fact,
Thunderbird can't even use them. Selecting a contact in the Contacts
folder provides some silly message about how your mail client doesn't
understand them.

Does Roundcube rely on these folders being present via IMAP?

I know that Thunderbird supports auto configuration, but I'm not sure
it supports it down to the folder subscription level.

> 
>> 2) Is it possible to disable those folders from being presented
>> by IMAP by default?
> 
> You could use an IMAP proxy that hides these folders for non-Kolab
> clients.
> 

That sounds like a really painful solution to something that Kolab
should probably handle automatically.

Does the actual Kontact mail client rely on these folders being
available via IMAP?

- -Erik
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