[imp] Folders broken ? (or intermittent)

Chuck Hagenbuch chuck@horde.org
Sat, 22 Dec 2001 19:29:49 -0500


Quoting "Brent J. Nordquist" <bjn@horde.org>:

> I've also noticed that Courier IMAP doesn't allow you to create folders
> with "*" or "%" in them.  I'm seeing behavior that leads me to believe it
> expects those characters to be wildcards.  I think this is behavior
> specific to Courier IMAP but I haven't found anything documenting it yet.

They are IMAP wildcards - it's not Courier-specific at all. * means to match
everything; % means to match everything on the same level (so, * gets you all
mailboxes; % gets you all top-level mailboxes; i* gets you everything (including
subfolders) that starts with an i; INBOX.% gets you every mailbox under INBOX,
but not any subfolders; etc).

-chuck

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