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

[Timo Sirainen]

On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 12:48 +0200, Samuel Kvasnica wrote:

> This is a very nasty mess. If there are some ancient clients like pine
> or whatever we used on vt100 in the 90th that need broken LIST command,
> there should be a workaround setting for that. But currently, we use a
> workaround setting to get the expected standard behavior, thats really bad.
> 
> <squirt-mode>
> On one hand, you push people to comply with standards regarding imap
> capabilities in v2.0, on the other hand the essential LIST command  is
> just messy and inconsistent.
> </squirt-mode>

Well, the guy who designed IMAP standard thinks the Dovecot/UW-IMAP LIST
behavior is correct. I'd point you to a thread in imap-protocol mailing
list but I can't find archives in web for year 2003.

I'll probably do something about this, but not before v2.1..