[Dovecot] Maildir folder renaming disagreement among IMAP clients

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Tue Jul 15 22:25:11 EEST 2008


On Tue, 2008-07-15 at 14:57 -0400, Adam McDougall wrote:
> A user alerted me to a problem when he renamed an upper level mail 
> folder and lost access to a lower level folder under it.
> 
> I tried with and without listescape, it didn't seem to make a 
> difference, and I saw no errors in the dovecot log.

It should have worked properly without listescape (and worked in my
tests). Fixed listescape:
http://dovecot.org/patches/1.1/listescape-plugin.c

The way it should work is:

 - Dovecot should rename all child mailboxes
 - Dovecot shouldn't touch subscriptions

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