[Dovecot] Behavior difference in mbox versus Maildir listing

[Timo Sirainen]

On 21.5.2011, at 23.35, Bruno Prémont wrote:

>> It's expected, although maybe not the best behavior. I'm basically
>> copying UW-IMAP behavior for mbox and Courier/Cyrus behavior for
>> Maildir. There are more detailed reasons for why the "#mbox.folder."
>> should be listed, which are described by Mark Crispin somewhere in
>> imap-protocol mailing list archives I think. I've been thinking about
>> making dbox and Maildir (and maybe mbox) behavior identical though..
> 
> Hm, at least claws-mail (it uses libetpan) does not survive listing the
> #mbox namespace here, it loops listing the same folder until it crashes.

Well, then I'd think it always crashes when listing mailboxes with UW-IMAP? If not, it has some special UW-IMAP specific crash-avoidance code..

> If you have a pointer to the detailed reasons for the differing behavior
> I would appreciate so I could add it to the bug report.

Well, one such link is http://marc.info/?l=imap&m=104561252904979&w=2 but there are probably better.