[Dovecot] \" character in folder name results in strange LIST

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Tue Aug 17 20:22:46 EEST 2010


On Sun, 2010-08-15 at 16:50 +0200, Samuel Kvasnica wrote:
> >> 12 subscribe "Trash/aaa/"
> >> 12 NO Invalid mailbox name: Trash/aaa/   <=== non-existing child folder,
> >> ERROR
> >> 13 unsubscribe "aaa/"
> >> 13 NO Invalid mailbox name: aaa/ <=== non-existing child folder, ERROR
> > Set:
> >
> > imap_client_workarounds = tb-extra-mailbox-sep
> >
> just swapped shortly back to non-fs maildir layout for a test - that one
> works normally. So there must be a bug
> in layout=fs implementation, it is listing the parent directory as child !

It's not really a bug, it's a feature.. Whether it's a good feature is
less clear. This is anyway what UW-IMAP also does, and what (Al)Pine
wants. And this exact same bug has existed for a long time with Doveocot
+mbox. The tb-extra-mailbox-sep workaround has fixed it for other people
previously..




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