IMHO did it by using a folder called ".imhoprefs" and I think "." folders were treated as hidden by the IMAP client.
I think they also put obvious disclaimer text like "DO NOT DELETE -- WEBMAIL PREFERENCES FILE", etc in the message, so that if someone did find it and view it; it wasn't lost provided they could read and understand its importance.
Regards, Mark Mackay.
-----Original Message----- From: justin randell [mailto:justin@babel.com.au] Sent: Friday, 14 October 2005 12:32 p.m. To: Thomas Bruederli Cc: dev@lists.roundcube.net Subject: Re: any interest in a file based prefs storage mechanism?
saving the prefs in imap is an interesting idea. the only design issue that strikes me is: how to make the data safe from being munged by other apps that access the imap server?
we have many users who login to our imap server using a web client in one place and outlook/thunderbird/etc elsewhere.
comments?
cheers justin