-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Eyvind Bernhardsen schrieb: > The LSUB command does not act like LIST when provided with an empty mask > argument. LIST responds with the hierarchy delimiter: > > * LIST (\Noselect) "." "" > OK List completed. > > whereas LSUB doesn't return anything useful: > > OK Lsub completed. > > RFC 3501 doesn't specify what LSUB should do in this case, but Courier > IMAP has LSUB act like LIST. The attached patch modifies > imap/cmd-list.c to make Dovecot do the same. > > > Why do I care about LSUB? I'm using a hack for Apple Mail that replaces > its LIST command with LSUB (something like what's described here: > http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20040407062603804), to > prevent it from syncing public folders from the Exchange server at the > office. > > The hack replaces _all_ LISTs with LSUBs, including the LIST "" "" > Mail.app sends to discover the hierarchy delimiter. Since dovecot > doesn't give it any information in response to LSUB "" "", Mail.app > defaults to using "/" as a delimiter, which means that trying to access > a subfolder only results in an "Invalid mailbox name" error. > > While this isn't really a bug in Dovecot, it's not inconceivable that > other people than me could be affected by this problem (macosxhints.com > has a substantial readership). It's also tricky to diagnose, especially > since the "Invalid mailbox name" message doesn't include the invalid > mailbox name, so any bug reports you get are likely to eventually be > filed under "crazy [Mac] users". > > In fact, while Googling to figure out why Dovecot wasn't working for me, > I came across at least one poster to this mailing list who had > discovered that Mail.app was using "/" as a delimiter. I can't be sure, > but I'm guessing that his problem was related to mine. > > Since the patch is tiny and doesn't hurt performance or make Dovecot do > anything that contradicts the IMAP RFC, I hope you'll consider adding it > to the official distribution. > > > > Eyvind Bernhardsen > Hi, as i have one customer on courier only with apple mail i got known of so many bugs with imap that i must say this is a broken client in my eyes
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