On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 12:48 +0200, Samuel Kvasnica wrote: > This is a very nasty mess. If there are some ancient clients like pine > or whatever we used on vt100 in the 90th that need broken LIST command, > there should be a workaround setting for that. But currently, we use a > workaround setting to get the expected standard behavior, thats really bad. > > <squirt-mode> > On one hand, you push people to comply with standards regarding imap > capabilities in v2.0, on the other hand the essential LIST command is > just messy and inconsistent. > </squirt-mode>
Well, the guy who designed IMAP standard thinks the Dovecot/UW-IMAP LIST behavior is correct. I'd point you to a thread in imap-protocol mailing list but I can't find archives in web for year 2003. I'll probably do something about this, but not before v2.1..