javamail imap listing

[Matthew Broadhead]

Hi Michael,

Geronimo JavaMail hard defaults to / separator.  If the separator is 
manually set to undefined it automatically calculates the separator 
correctly.

However neither through JavaMail or by command line does
LIST "." "*"
or
LIST . "*"
produce any root listing of default folder on my Dovecot installation.

Only
LIST "" "*"
produces a listing.

Could there be something else wrong in the configuration to cause this?

Matthew

On 19/04/2017 15:29, Michael Slusarz wrote:
> "A non-empty reference name argument is the name of a mailbox or a level of mailbox hierarchy, and indicates the context in which the mailbox name is interpreted."
>
> If Dovecot is using "." as the separator in the base level of hierarchy, then it correctly is returning nothing for 'LIST / "*"' - since no mailboxes in Dovecot live under that base level of hierarchy.
>
> Gmail returns data because it is using "/" as a separator.
>
> If you want Dovecot to return LIST entries for 'LIST "/" "*"', then configure the base namespace to use "/" as a separator.  Of course then 'LIST "." "*"' would return nothing...
>
> michael
>
>> On April 18, 2017 at 2:38 AM Matthew Broadhead <matthew.broadhead at nbmlaw.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Thanks Michael.  I have forwarded that link to the Geronimo JavaMail
>> team in case they think of anything their end.
>>
>> But in the documentation you sent it seems that Dovecot should respond
>> in the case of
>> LIST / "*"
>> if my understanding is correct
>>
>> Is there any way to adjust this behaviour in the settings?  I am
>> struggling to search for a solution to the problem given the limited
>> information.
>>
>> On 18/04/2017 05:46, Michael Slusarz wrote:
>>> You probably want to read the description of "reference name argument" to understand what is happening here.
>>>
>>> https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3501#section-6.3.8
>>>
>>> michael
>>>
>>>> On April 17, 2017 at 8:33 AM Matthew Broadhead <matthew.broadhead at nbmlaw.co.uk> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> i am using dovecot-2.2.10-7.el7.x86_64 on
>>>> centos-release-7-3.1611.el7.centos.x86_64.
>>>>
>>>> if i follow this tutorial
>>>> https://delog.wordpress.com/2011/05/10/access-imap-server-from-the-command-line-using-openssl/
>>>> i can login to my server and successfully list the folders using
>>>> tag LIST "" "*"
>>>>
>>>> *   LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." INBOX
>>>> tag OK List completed.
>>>>
>>>> no folders are listed using
>>>> tag LIST / "*"
>>>> tag OK List completed.
>>>>
>>>> when i request a folder listing using JavaMail it similarly sends the
>>>> following command and no folders are listed
>>>> a97 LIST / "*"
>>>> a97 OK List completed.
>>>>
>>>> if i follow the tutorial again and use my gmail account instead of my
>>>> dovecot installation i can successfully list folders using both methods
>>>> tag LIST / "*"
>>>>
>>>> *   LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "youtube"
>>>> tag OK List completed.
>>>>
>>>> is there some way to make dovecot list folders when it receives the command
>>>> LIST / "*"
>>>>
>>>> i note that in the listings my dovecot installation has "." in the
>>>> middle and gmail has a "/"