On Mon, 12 Apr 2004, Henry Baragar wrote:The last I heard there were some open questions about "invalid" mailboxes and I have not seen an update. What makes a mailbox "invalid"? Conversely, what makes a mailbox "valid"?I had to go back into the archives to findHi, Henry. Are you able to reproduce a crash with a specific folder structure?
http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg01166.html
which describes how to make Outlook crash a Maildir++ depot. Since I did
not mention any crashes when using an IMAPdir depot, then it probably
means that there weren't any problems there.
Sorry, that I did not check this before rather than after sending my
first message.
After this issue, Binc refused to create mailboxes that were "invalid", and didn't display invalid mailboxes in the responses from LIST. Are you sure this issue still lives today (I don't have Outlook 200x to test with)?
It appears (from my limited testing) that Binc does not list mailboxes that begin or end with a dot (".") or have two sequential dots ("..") anywhere in the name in an IMAPDIR depot. Is this correct?
However, I can still edit the .bincimap-subscribed file and add "folder//slashes" or "//leading/slashes" (with valid associated Maildirs) which will cause Outlook to crash.
In Opera I get some interesting results when I try to create "two//slashes":
1. Opera sends "CREATE two//slashes"
2. Binc replies "NO CREATE FAILED", which Opera ignores
3. Opera sends "SUBSCRIBE two//slashes"
4. Binc replies "OK SUBSCRIBE completed"
5. Opera sends "STATUS two//slashes (MESSAGES UIDNEXT RECENT)"
6. Binc replies "NO STATUS failed: Unrecognized mailbox: "two//slashes""
The .bincimap-subscribed now contains "two//slashes" but all other operations seem to fail.
So, where does this leave us?
Henry:-)
Andy :-)
-- Andreas Aardal Hanssen | http://www.andreas.hanssen.name/gpg Author of Binc IMAP | "It is better not to do something http://www.bincimap.org/ | than to do it poorly."
-- Henry Baragar Principal, Technical Architecture 416-453-5626 Instantiated Software Inc. http://www.instantiated.ca
