[Tickets #5764] Re: renaming MIX format folders fails

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Ticket URL: http://bugs.horde.org/ticket/?id=5764
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 Ticket             | 5764
 Updated By         | ip at ariel.utcc.utoronto.ca
 Summary            | renaming MIX format folders fails
 Queue              | IMP
 Version            | 4.1.4
 Type               | Bug
 State              | Not A Bug
 Priority           | 2. Medium
 Owners             | Michael Slusarz
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ip at ariel.utcc.utoronto.ca (2007-10-18 07:26) wrote:

>>> Sounds like a broken IMAP server or c-client library. Michael?
>>
>> The format of folders on the IMAP server should be completely
>> transparent to a MUA.  So it sounds like UW-IMAP is incorrectly
>> broadcasting both folder names - 'foo' and 'foo/'.
>
> OK, definitely looks like that IMAP server is broken.  Using the test 
> account, a list of all folders gives this:
>
> a002 list "" *
> * LIST (\NoInferiors \UnMarked) "/" junk-mail
> * LIST () "/" sent
> * LIST () "/" a
> * LIST () "/" a/b
> * LIST () "/" INBOX
>
> A list of the 'a' folder gives the following:
>
> a003 list "" a/%
> * LIST () "/" a/
> * LIST () "/" a/b
>
> That 'a/' entry should not be there.  It is not a valid folder.  At 
> the very least it should have a '\Noselect' flag.  But the IMAP 
> server is telling us it is a valid folder, so that's what we have to 
> assume.  We have no way of knowing before we perform an operation on 
> it whether that operation will be successful or not.

No. 'a' is a selectable folder. The new MIX format folders can contain
both messages and other folders, similar to Cyrus folders.