Re: [binc] Problem with folders starting with space in Thunderbird

[Henry Baragar]

On Wed, 02 Jun 2004 17:17:13 -0700, Seth LaForge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'm using binc 1.2.7 with IMAPdir and Thunderbird 0.6.  In Thunderbird,  
if I create a top-level folder with a name starting with a space, e.g. "  
Spam", everything appears fine.  But then if I exit and restart  
Thunderbird, the " Spam" folder disappears, and a "Spam" folder appears  
with its name grayed out and italicised.  Playing with Thunderbird's  
Subscription settings leads to all kinds of odd mayhem.

Is binc known to have problems with folder names beginning with space?   
This may well be a Thunderbird problem, although I have folders starting  
with space on a Cyrus server with no problems (although under INBOX, not  
at the top level).  If it's not a known problem, I'll do some protocol  
tracing and try to figure out what's going on.

Netscape 7.01 also exhibits this problem.  It appears that those folders  
are there, but no longer subscribed (look at your subscribed list).

Opera also exhibits a problem with leading spaces, usually leading to a  
crash :-(

There does appear to be a problem with Binc:  when opera sends:
    167 LSUB "" "*"
Binc sends back:
    * LSUB (\Noselect) "/" "space"
Clearly it should have said " space".
However, when opera sends:
    168 LIST "" "*"
Binc sends back
    * LIST (\Unmarked) "/" " space"
which is the right thing.
Binc also seems to do someting funny with:
    169 SUBSCRIBE " space"
It responds with:
    169 OK SUBSCRIBE completed
and adds "space" to the .binc-subscribed file.  This kind of funny since "  
space" was already in the .binc-subscribed file.  What's even funnier, is  
that it keeps adding a "space" to the .binc-subscribed file every time I  
do a subscribe " space" in opera!

I need to go now.  If Andy does not immediately figure out how to fix  
these problems, I will do some more investigation to further pin things  
down.

BTW, I'm putting spaces in front of folder names as a hack to get them  
to sort to the top of the folder list.  I've switched to putting "^" in  
front of folder names instead - Thunderbird/binc don't seem to mind that.

I use "_" for this purpose.
Seth
Henry :-)
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Henry Baragar
Instantiated Software Inc.
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