[Dovecot] IMAP subscriptions - how, for what and why?

[Marc Perkel]

Timo Sirainen wrote:

>On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 13:03 +0200, Tom Alsberg wrote:
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>>Again, not a Dovecot issua - but can someone clarify better what IMAP
>>subscriptions (SUBSCRIBE/UNSUBSCRIBE/LSUB) are and what they are used
>>for?
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>Pretty much the only point of subscriptions is that you don't have to
>look at all the mailboxes that server has to offer. This is especially
>useful if you have tens or hundreds of shared/public mailboxes (eg.
>mailing lists or some news gateway or whatever).
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Another advantage of the 1.0 version release is that some distributions 
might include your 0.9x version instead of the alpha because of the 
alpha name. A 1.0 version will keep people from installing the older and 
obsolete versions. And that is important I would think.

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