[Dovecot] Question about dovecot 2.2 and LIST command
I am running dovecot 2.2 changeset 16983:d925674c4329 on AIX. We use mbox files with the "/" delimter. I have an imap protocol question. When I do:
1 list directory1/ * 1 OK List completed.
Is that the correct answer?
If I do 1 list "" *
it shows
- LIST (\Noselect \HasChildren) "/" "directory1"
I forget why I think that even with the delimiter, I should see some information about it. Is this a silly test that no imap client does?
Thanks, Jonathan
Quoting Jonathan Siegle jsiegle@psu.edu:
I am running dovecot 2.2 changeset 16983:d925674c4329 on AIX. We use
mbox files with the "/" delimter. I have an imap protocol question.
When I do:1 list directory1/ * 1 OK List completed.
Is that the correct answer?
Yes. See below.
If I do 1 list "" *
it shows
- LIST (\Noselect \HasChildren) "/" "directory1"
You are asking for the list of all mailboxes under (i.e. within) the
'directory1' mailbox. According to your 2nd command, there are no
visible mailboxes under "directory1".
\HasChildren shouldn't normally be returned in this case. But that's
a SHOULD NOT - not a MUST NOT. From RFC 3348:
In many cases, however, a server may not be able to efficiently
compute whether a user has access to all child mailboxes, or multiple
users may be accessing the same account and simultaneously changing
the mailbox hierarchy. As such a client MUST be prepared to accept
the \HasChildren attribute as a hint. That is, a mailbox MAY be
flagged with the \HasChildren attribute, but no child mailboxes will
appear in a subsequent LIST response.michael
On 19.11.2013, at 0.50, Jonathan Siegle jsiegle@psu.edu wrote:
I am running dovecot 2.2 changeset 16983:d925674c4329 on AIX. We use mbox files with the "/" delimter. I have an imap protocol question. When I do:
1 list directory1/ * 1 OK List completed.
Is that the correct answer?
If I do 1 list "" *
it shows
- LIST (\Noselect \HasChildren) "/" "directory1"
I forget why I think that even with the delimiter, I should see some information about it. Is this a silly test that no imap client does?
Well, something like this apparently was used by Pine (and Alpine?) with mbox format, so this is quite a special case. Looks like it got broken by commit http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.1/rev/8cdc7c13d6f2
I’m not sure if it’s really worth spending time on though..
On 2013-11-19 at 21:47, Timo Sirainen wrote:
On 19.11.2013, at 0.50, Jonathan Siegle jsiegle@psu.edu wrote:
I am running dovecot 2.2 changeset 16983:d925674c4329 on AIX. We use mbox files with the "/" delimter. I have an imap protocol question. When I do:
1 list directory1/ * 1 OK List completed.
Is that the correct answer?
If I do 1 list "" *
it shows
- LIST (\Noselect \HasChildren) "/" "directory1"
I forget why I think that even with the delimiter, I should see some information about it. Is this a silly test that no imap client does?
Well, something like this apparently was used by Pine (and Alpine?) with mbox format, so this is quite a special case. Looks like it got broken by commit http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.1/rev/8cdc7c13d6f2
I’m not sure if it’s really worth spending time on though..
Ok thanks. We are attempting to migrate from version 2.0 to a more recent version. I forgot to write down the reason the test was in the test plan. Version 2.1 latest revision showed this variance so I tried latest on 2.2 . I have not noticed a problem and I typically use alpine version 2.02 from Debian Wheezy.
-Jonathan
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Jonathan Siegle
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Michael M Slusarz
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Timo Sirainen