Hi there.
João Vale wrote:
I needed RoundCube to access shared folders on a Courier-IMAP server. I've seen a couple of posts / forum threads related to this, but no real solution.
If I change $rcmail_config['imap_root'] to 'shared', I can see them. But I needed to have both namespaces, 'INBOX' and 'shared', displayed in the folder list. Is there a way to do this? Or is it feasible to implement considering the current code structure? I'm willing to hack at it. ^^
Are you willing to hack the PHP source or hit the (ignorant) PHP guys with a cluebat? The PHP imap module is limited/broken, since it doesn't support (read: expose) both mandatory imap RFC operations (like the CAPABILITIES command) and optional operations that depend on this part (like NAMESPACES). The latter is the right command to ask your (or mine..) courier-imap server for the global namespace, the shared folders namespace etc..
Ironically PHP _could_ support that with ridiculous ease: The imap library PHP uses (c-client) already supports/exposes both CAPABILTIES and NAMESPACES.. I reported the bug several times, it was never considered a bug but merely a request for enhancement and ignored for quite some time.
I have very limited C skills and never hacked the PHP code, so I hesitated to try it on my own yet. Anyone with more only _some_ practice on that field should be able to create a patch for that methods in merely 20 minutes..
Rant mode off, back to the basic problem: Currently the language PHP has limited IMAP support and therefor it's hard to support environments like yours or mine in applications that rely on/are written in PHP.
Regards, Ben