[Dovecot] Problems with listescape and mutt

[Daniel Spannbauer]

Timo Sirainen schrieb:
> On Mon, 2009-12-07 at 13:58 +0100, Daniel Spannbauer wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> we are using Dovecot 1.2.6 with activated listescape-Plugin.
>> Mutt mutt seems to have a problem with listescape (or my configuration 
>> [1] is screwed).
>>
>> When I log in with mutt over imap an press "c", I see al the folders,
>> .Trash, .Drafts etc.
> 
> You actually see the leading dot? You shouldn't.
> 
>> But when I try to change to .Drafts (for example), mutt gives me the 
>> error the he can't find the folder "\2eDrafts".
> 
> This apparently happens because for some reason mutt is showing the
> leading dot and then tries to open the mailbox using the escaped dot,
> which fails.

Hmm, I log in with mutt over the dovecot imap, so a "c" shows exactly:


  1   0                                 imap://ds@homedirs/ 

  2   0                                 imap://ds@homedirs/.ADMIN
  3   0                                 imap://ds@homedirs/.DOVECOT
  4   0                                 imap://ds@homedirs/.Drafts
  5   0                              imap://ds@homedirs/.IT-Administrator
  6   0                                 imap://ds@homedirs/.test
  7   0                                 imap://ds@homedirs/.NX
  8   0                                 imap://ds@homedirs/.SUSE
  9   0                                 imap://ds@homedirs/.Samba
10   0                                 imap://ds@homedirs/.Sent
11   0                                 imap://ds@homedirs/.Sent Items
12   0                                 imap://ds@homedirs/.Sent Messages
13   0                                 imap://ds@homedirs/.Trash
14   0                                 imap://ds@homedirs/.antispam
15   0                                 imap://ds@homedirs/.archiv
16   0                                 imap://ds@homedirs/.kde
17   0                                 imap://ds@homedirs/.maildir
18   0                                 imap://ds@homedirs/.nod32
20   0                                 imap://ds@homedirs/.xup

This is the folder-List.

> 
> You could try what the actual IMAP traffic looks like:
> 
> telnet localhost 143
> a login username password
> b list "" *
> 

Ok, there are no leading dots.

Regards

Daniel




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