[Dovecot] Problems with listescape and mutt

[Timo Sirainen]

On Mon, 2009-12-07 at 13:58 +0100, Daniel Spannbauer wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> we are using Dovecot 1.2.6 with activated listescape-Plugin.
> Mutt mutt seems to have a problem with listescape (or my configuration 
> [1] is screwed).
> 
> When I log in with mutt over imap an press "c", I see al the folders,
> .Trash, .Drafts etc.

You actually see the leading dot? You shouldn't.

> But when I try to change to .Drafts (for example), mutt gives me the 
> error the he can't find the folder "\2eDrafts".

This apparently happens because for some reason mutt is showing the
leading dot and then tries to open the mailbox using the escaped dot,
which fails.

You could try what the actual IMAP traffic looks like:

telnet localhost 143
a login username password
b list "" *

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