Re: [SM-DEVEL] Spam Folder

[PajaP <sou...@pa...>]

On Thu, 7 Sep 2006 19:38:45 +0300 (EEST), "Tomas Kuliavas"
<to...@us...> wrote:

>> _Every_ other 'major player' webmail site out there has a SPAM folder
>> (as a special folder).
>
>And what you are supposed to do with that folder? Nothing, if you don't
>have tools that do spam filtering.
>
Don't enable it. I have suggested it is created as an option.
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You can now specify where the default trash folder is located.
On servers where you do not want this, you can set it to anything
and set option 6 to false.
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You can now specify where the default draft folder is located.
On servers where you do not want this, you can set it to anything
and set option 9 to false.
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>You use "every other" term to describe something that is present only in
>some email clients.
>

I used the term 'major player'. Meaning the most popular clients.
You name the ones that don't provide the option.
I will name the ones that do.
See who gets the highest count.
Lets use the most popular clients in the lists.

>SquirrelMail is IMAP client. Drafts, Sent and Trash are not standard IMAP
>folders. Only INBOX is standard one. See RFC 3501.
>

So why have the 'option' to create Drafts, Sent and Trash?
Who decided to ignore the RFC here?
I never use Drafts. I use Spam all the time.
I expect I am in the majority here (certainly the case with my user
base).

>You are asking for feature that can be implemented as plugin. Point at
>bugs in 1.4.x code without saying that they are bugs. Claim that you also
>need it for some special feature that is not present in standard code.
>Complain that SquirrelMail configuration script removes variable that is
>not supposed to be used in standard config.php. Ignore special
>configuration file that can be used to store custom variables.
>

None of the plugins implement it the same way as SM treats other
special folders.
I never said there are any bugs.
I never knew about the special configuration file.
If I did not, there are probably plenty of others out there who don't.
I would still prefer it to work without having to use a special
configuration file. If I wanted to edit files I would edit config.php
by hand.
I am not complaining. I am requesting a feature is added.

>SquirrelMail is modular system. This feature can be implemented in plugin.
>Please implement it in plugin. If you can't implement something in plugin,
>we have devel and plugins lists for that.
>

I have enough plugins to keep track of already.
Adding this to core would enable me to lose one of them and save time
editing loads of other files.

So nothing ever gets 'added' to core?

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Thanks
PajaP