[Dovecot] RFC compliance on folder lists

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Mon Oct 9 16:59:36 UTC 2006


On Mon, 2006-10-09 at 08:55 -0700, Tony Kay wrote:
> If a mail folder contains quotes, the IMAP server may respond with a line like:
> 
> 1 list "" "a/b/"X" Y Z"
> 
> The specific example I saw had this exact form (it was in a nested folder, and one of the words was quoted).

Umm.. That's a command from client, not a reply from server. To me it
looks more like a bug in client.

Here's what Dovecot sends when mailbox has quotes:

x list "" foo%
* LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." {7}
foo"bar
x OK List completed.

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