Apple Mail and subfolders

[Remo Mattei]

I am a mac user with Apple Mail as well I do not have any issues in creating new folders. I am also using qmail as my smtp. 

Remo 

> On Jul 12, 2020, at 1:36 PM, Sami Ketola <sami.ketola at dovecot.fi> wrote:
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>> On 11. Jul 2020, at 22.50, Filip Hajný <filip at hajny.net> wrote:
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>>> I just created a subfolder in Apple mail. It shows up on the server as .list.Subfolder
>>> I drug your message into the folder, and the message shows up in Mail.app and shows up in the subfolder on the server
>>> 
>>> # ls -lnR .lists.Subfolder                          [10:40] [/usr/local/virtual/kremels at kreme.com/Maildir]
>>> total 56
>>> drwx------  2 89  89   512 Jul 11 10:41 cur
>>> -rw-------  1 89  89    21 Jul 11 10:41 dovecot-keywords
>>> -rw-------  1 89  89   109 Jul 11 10:41 dovecot-uidlist
>>> -rw-------  1 89  89  1924 Jul 11 10:41 dovecot.index.cache
>>> -rw-------  1 89  89   868 Jul 11 10:41 dovecot.index.log
>>> -rw-------  1 89  89     0 Jul 11 10:35 maildirfolder
>>> drwx------  2 89  89   512 Jul 11 10:35 new
>>> drwx------  2 89  89   512 Jul 11 10:41 tmp
>>> 
>> 
>> I’ve created a test server and found out that the driving factor is what the namespace `separator` is set to. If set to /, Apple Mail gets confused and URL-encodes it when creating a new folder. If the separator is blank (as set by default) or set to e.g. a dot, everything works just fine.
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>> Based on example and docs I found, a slash character should be good or even recommended, suggesting this is some kind of bug in Apple Mail,  but I’m not versed enough in the IMAP related RFCs to understand.
> 
> I'm Apple user. I have separator set to / and I can create folders just fine without any encoding. Can you please record imap rawlogs where it shows what command your Mail.App is sending?
> 
> Sami

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