dovecot - Sep 2008 - Cosmetic issue with dots in Maildir folder names

Just a minor cosmetic issue: We use the listescape plugin in order to
support "." characters in Maildir++ folder names, and in at least the
following case, the escaped representation of the dot character
("\2e")
won't be translated back to a "." in messages for the IMAP client:

| 1 SELECT non.existent
| 1 NO Mailbox doesn't exist: non\2eexistent

However, SELECTing an existing folder whose name includes a dot works
fine, and it also works in other cases, e.g.:

| 2 CREATE does.exist
| 2 OK Create completed.
| 3 LIST "" does.exist
| * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" does.exist
| 3 OK List completed.

This is with Dovecot 1.1.3; we use "separator = /" and we've
defined
REAL_SEP to '.' and VIRTUAL_SEP to '/' in the plugin.

Holger

On Sep 8, 2008, at 12:37 AM, Holger Weiss wrote:
> Just a minor cosmetic issue: We use the listescape plugin in order to
> support "." characters in Maildir++ folder names, and in at least
the
> following case, the escaped representation of the dot character  
> ("\2e")
> won't be translated back to a "." in messages for the IMAP
client:
>
> | 1 SELECT non.existent
> | 1 NO Mailbox doesn't exist: non\2eexistent
Well .. I guess the plugin could guess that any \2e (and the few other  
escapes) in any error string could be converted back, but I don't  
think it's really worth the trouble since normally a client wouldn't  
ever issue such a command that gives an error..

There's a similar problem also if you're using namespace prefixes.  
They're dropped from the error messages. Maybe when I some day manage  
to solve that somehow this listescape problem might get solved at the  
same time. :)
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