[Dovecot] Case-sensitive INBOX or client issue?

[Reindl Harald]

Am 22.03.2014 01:33, schrieb SB Code Ninja:
> IMAP Response: * OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS
> ID ENABLE AUTH=PLAIN] Dovecot ready.
> IMAP Request: A0 AUTHENTICATE PLAIN
> IMAP Response: +
> IMAP Request: <redacted>
> IMAP Response: A0 OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS
> ID ENABLE SORT SORT=DISPLAY THREAD=REFERENCES THREAD=REFS MULTIAPPEND
> UNSELECT IDLE CHILDREN NAMESPACE UIDPLUS LIST-EXTENDED I18NLEVEL=1
> CONDSTORE QRESYNC ESEARCH ESORT SEARCHRES WITHIN CONTEXT=SEARCH
> LIST-STATUS] Logged in
> IMAP Request: A1 LIST "" Inbox/63
> IMAP Response: A1 OK List completed.
> IMAP Request: A2 CREATE Inbox/63
> IMAP Response: A2 NO [ALREADYEXISTS] Mailbox exists.
> 
> If I login manually and do 'LIST "" INBOX/63' it works fine, but not with
> "Inbox/63".  I was under the impression that INBOX was not case-sensitive.
> Is this a bug or is the client doing something silly?

by RFC folder names are *not* case-sensitive, if dovecot handles them
case-sensitive it is a bug, however there are broken clients as well

if anybody ever struggeled with different MS Outlook versions and no
new mails displayed just rename 'Inbox' to 'INBOX' on the server

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