dovecot - May 2004 - Dovecot returns everything starting with "." as folder

Hi,

I'm using dovecot imapd 0.99.10.5 from debian unstable and I
noticed that dovecot returns everything in the maildir
folder that starts with a "." as a folder as the result of

  LIST "" "%"

command without checking if it is really a maildir folder
(must contain the directories cur, new, tmp and the file
maildirfolder).

This is a little bit annoying because it also returns
Sylpheed's cache files '.sylpheed_cache' and
'.sylpheed_mark' if they exist in the maildir.

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On Sat, 2004-05-29 at 20:49, Christoph Hohmann wrote:
> I'm using dovecot imapd 0.99.10.5 from debian unstable and I
> noticed that dovecot returns everything in the maildir
> folder that starts with a "." as a folder as the result of
> 
>   LIST "" "%"
> 
> command without checking if it is really a maildir folder
> (must contain the directories cur, new, tmp and the file
> maildirfolder).
It's a bit useless to check it in most situations and it would just
cause extra disk I/O if system doesn't support struct dirent->d_type
field.. But since this has been asked often enough..:

http://www.dovecot.org/patches/maildir-stat-dirs.patch

You'd probably want to run autogen.sh + configure again, or just #define
HAVE_DIRENT_D_TYPE in config.h.

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Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote:
> > I'm using dovecot imapd 0.99.10.5 from debian unstable and I
> > noticed that dovecot returns everything in the maildir
> > folder that starts with a "." as a folder as the result of
> > 
> >   LIST "" "%"
> > 
> > command without checking if it is really a maildir folder
>
> It's a bit useless to check it in most situations and it would just
> cause extra disk I/O if system doesn't support struct dirent->d_type
> field.. But since this has been asked often enough..:
> 
> http://www.dovecot.org/patches/maildir-stat-dirs.patch
How often do IMAP clients use the LIST commands, that this
extra IO would cause significant slowdown?
> You'd probably want to run autogen.sh + configure again, or just
#define
> HAVE_DIRENT_D_TYPE in config.h.
I'm using the debian package.

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