[Dovecot] unknown namespace with Mac OS client

[Ken Dail]

On Jan 30, 2007, at 9:08 PM, Francisco Reyes wrote:

> Timo Sirainen writes:
>
>> On 4.1.2007, at 1.48, Francisco Reyes wrote:
>>> Timo Sirainen writes:
>>>>> I used the solution from Barry Warsaw which he explained at:
>>>>> http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2006-December/018301.html
>>>>>
>>>>> Since making that change the mail.app client was able to   
>>>>> subcribe/ see all folders.
>
> Enabling the second name space make the mail.app work, but caused  
> all kind of strange problems.. with Squirrelmail and Horde. In  
> particular directories were listed twice.
>
> Don't know why it didn't seem to affect mail clients, but customers  
> were calling to complain about on webmail (squirrelmail) and our  
> new Horde setup.
>
> For now we simply will keep mail.app customers in Courier.
>
> This was on a RC15. Will try again on another server with  RC19 and  
> see if mail.app works with just one singlespace.
>
>
> What we kept...
> #courier-imap compatibility/Thunderbird
> namespace private {
>  separator = .
>  prefix = INBOX.
>  inbox = yes
> }
>
>
> What solved the mail.app, but broke webmail.. and we commented out  
> today. #--------------------------
> # For MAC OS Mail.app
> ##namespace private {
> ##   separator = /
>  ##  prefix = INBOX/
>  ##  inbox = yes
> ##}
>
That's pretty much the situation I saw several different clients  
behaved poorly with this kind of setup. Mail.app is just broken Maybe  
Timo can put in a workaround for ignore invalid namespaces provided  
by broken clients.