[Dovecot] Another minor IMAP LIST issue

Todd Vierling tv at duh.org
Fri Jul 22 17:43:26 EEST 2005


On Fri, 22 Jul 2005, Timo Sirainen wrote:

> > I've written a patch against 1.0-stable (it also works with test78) to
> > add an extra namespace option "showdotfiles" (default "no"), to include
> > folders beginning with "." (but excluding ".imap" and "." and ".." for
> > obvious reasons!). It's used as follows :-
>
> Hmm. Perhaps it should be enabled unconditionally? Just make it skip
> those and .subscriptions file (you forgot that).

This would match UW's IMAP implementation, modulo the skiplist specific to
Dovecot.  I'd really like to see this implemented.

(Id love to see it for maildir too, but as I mentioned ealier, parsing is a
little odd: a folder named .foo..bar...baz is the hierarchy foo/.bar/..baz)

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-- Todd Vierling <tv at duh.org> <tv at pobox.com> <todd at vierling.name>



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