[Dovecot] Pine and prefix - LIST command bug?

[Timo Sirainen]

On 18.3.2005, at 19:36, Chris Wakelin wrote:

> An empty ("" string) mailbox name argument is a special request to
>       return the hierarchy delimiter and the root name of the name 
> given
>       in the reference.  The value returned as the root MAY be null if
>       the reference is non-rooted or is null.  In all cases, the
>       hierarchy delimiter is returned.  This permits a client to get 
> the
>       hierarchy delimiter even when no mailboxes by that name currently
>       exist.
..
> Mind you, it looks like at least our UW-IMAP also gets it wrong for
> "~/mail/". Of course, I may be misunderstanding something!

No, after reading it through several times and testing how UW-IMAP 
reacts to different input, I finally understood it. The "root name" 
means the first part of the hierarchical mailbox name (um. is that any 
more understandable?). Eg. "foo/bar/baz" -> "foo/". I'll change it to 
return that.
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