What do you people think about Google's XLIST extension? Seems like something a lot of people are interested in implementing. Apparently it's already implemented by at least Gmail, iPhone and Thunderbird 3. Wonder if there would be point in trying to get it more standardized? The idea is basically to find what some of those "standard mailboxes" are called by the server. So instead of every client using a different "Sent Messages", "Sent Items, "Sent", etc. mailboxes the client could just look up the existing mailbox from server that has \Sent flag. The way it works now is that when client uses XLIST command instead of LIST command (identical otherwise), server can return these flags also in LIST replies: - \Drafts - \Trash - \Sent - \Spam - \Starred - \Allmail The first four are pretty standard used by most IMAP clients. \Starred is some gmail-specific I guess. \Allmail apparently could be described as a virtual mailbox containing user's all messages in all mailboxes.
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