On 21.5.2011, at 23.35, Bruno Prémont wrote: >> It's expected, although maybe not the best behavior. I'm basically >> copying UW-IMAP behavior for mbox and Courier/Cyrus behavior for >> Maildir. There are more detailed reasons for why the "#mbox.folder." >> should be listed, which are described by Mark Crispin somewhere in >> imap-protocol mailing list archives I think. I've been thinking about >> making dbox and Maildir (and maybe mbox) behavior identical though.. > > Hm, at least claws-mail (it uses libetpan) does not survive listing the > #mbox namespace here, it loops listing the same folder until it crashes.
Well, then I'd think it always crashes when listing mailboxes with UW-IMAP? If not, it has some special UW-IMAP specific crash-avoidance code.. > If you have a pointer to the detailed reasons for the differing behavior > I would appreciate so I could add it to the bug report. Well, one such link is http://marc.info/?l=imap&m=104561252904979&w=2 but there are probably better.