On 1.11.2004, at 15:44, Knut Rauscher wrote:

folder test with subfolder test1

test test.test1

choose 'move folder' from the context (right-mouse-click) menu of test

choose that we want to move folder test into his subfolder test1 (nonsense action, but quite a few employees trying to do that...)

Outlook displays error message

subscriptions shows correctly: test test1

BUT the directory structure of maildir is .test.test1.test.test1 .test.test1.test.test1.test

Is this a mishap of Dovecot or Outlook?

Actually I think this is exactly the correct behaviour from Dovecot. The command that produced this was:

1 RENAME test test.test1.test

So Dovecot moves test and everything under it to test.test1.test. There is no requirement in IMAP that "test" or "test1" has to exist.

However, I think it could be possible to get Dovecot into infinite loop with this. I'll have to check.

Maybe Dovecot should just disallow this though. Especially if it's not simple to fix the looping problem..