LIST command should not interpret wildcards in reference

[Robert Siemer]

Does no-one have an opinion about wildcards in the first argument to LIST?


Robert

On 14/12/15 16:14, Robert Siemer wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I believe this is erroneously implemented in Dovecot:
>
>
>  >>> for i in c.list_folders('deleteme.*.folder', '%'):
> ...  print(i)
> ...
> ((b'\\HasNoChildren',), b'.', 'deleteme.*.folder')
> ((b'\\HasNoChildren',), b'.', 'deleteme.deleteme.deleteme.folder')
>
>
> We see here an interactive python session, which launches
>
> LIST "deleteme.*.folder" "%"
>
> over the wire and receives two mailboxes as answer. The response is
> already parsed, but that’s not important for my point: according to
> RFC3501 section 6.3.8 LIST Command, the arguments are “reference name”
> and “mailbox name with possible wildcards”.
>
> Both arguments are allowed to contain wildcard characters, but they have
> no special meaning in the reference. Dovecot 2.2.18 doesn’t do that
> right: the second mailbox should not be listed, because it is not a
> subfolder of reference.
>
> Is this a known issue?
>
>
> Regards,
> Robert