Nick Sayer wrote:
>
> Ken Murchison wrote:
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> >
> > Nick Sayer wrote:
> >
> >>Ken Murchison wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>Nick Sayer wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>Hey great! This will let me work around MacOS X's Mail program's stupidity
> >>>>in this regard. Before I set up alt namespace, I couldn't get to any of my
> >>>>folders besides the INBOX! Doesn't anyone read an RFC anymore before they
> >>>>write software? Sheesh.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>Who? Me or the Mac guys?
> >>>
> >>Sorry for the ambiguity. The problem lies in the MacOS X Mail client,
> >>NOT in cyrus. When you try and select a subfolder, you get an error back
> >>that "folder/subfolder" is not an acceptable mailbox name to the server.
> >>Well, of course it's not! :-) alt namespace was required before I could
> >>look at anything other than INBOX because, for example, I would get an
> >>error saying that it couldn't select "INBOX/Sent". Now I can get to all
> >>of the first level folders because they can be selected without
> >>separator chars, but I anticipate that I will be able to get to all of
> >>them with the unix separator patch. But if Apple had been able to read
> >>an RFC, none of it would be necessary at all.
> >>
> >
> > I'm confused. Are/were you running a patched version of Cyrus that
> > created folders with '/' as the separator? My stuff is NOT compatible
> > with anything that actually stores folder names containing '/' in the
> > mailboxes DB (like David Fuchs' patch). The whole premise of my
> > alt-namespace and hier-sep is to not change any of the on-disk files.
>
> No. It's just cyrus with the namespace patch.
>
> MacOS X's mail client is stupid. It tries to do a
>
> 10 SELECT INBOX/foo
>
> despite the fact that the LSUB/LIST output said "INBOX.foo".
>
> This behavior is clearly stupid.
Ahh! Now I understand.
> You're being blinded by an expectation that the client was not written
> by morons. :-)
Yes, but now I have seen the black light ;-)
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