[Dovecot] Question about dovecot 2.2 and LIST command

[Timo Sirainen]

On 19.11.2013, at 0.50, Jonathan Siegle <jsiegle at 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..