[Dovecot] \NoSelect on missing folders in LIST

[Timo Sirainen]

On 5.3.2012, at 16.56, Peter Mogensen wrote:

>>> This makes some clients using "*" to get the folder list ignore the folderes below "INBOX.INBOX".
>> 
>> What clients? I haven't heard of this being a problem before. I think Cyrus has similar behavior as Dovecot.
> 
> Well... mostly perl scripts :) - which could probably be changed to use "%" for wildcard, but since they always need to get the entire folder tree it would result in more IMAP traffic.

Couldn't the scripts be simply fixed to figure out that if foo.bar.baz is returned without foo or foo.bar, then just internally assume them being there as \noselect?