> On 14. Oct 2020, at 14.20, @lbutlr <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On 14 Oct 2020, at 04:24, Sami Ketola <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On 14. Oct 2020, at 12.51, Victor Sudakov <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Those Mac clients who do not use nested folders do not seem to be
>>> affected. That is, I've already suggested to the Mac Mail user that he
>>> start Thunderbird, move all his mailboxes into the IMAP root folder, and
>>> then go on using Mac Mail. I hope that's what he has done.
>
>> There is a bug in Mail.app that it always assumes / as hierarchy separator
>> and
>> completely ignores server provided separator.
>
> Cite? Because no, that is not my experience at all.
>
> From my maildir on my FreeBSD server:
>
> # ls -lnd .root*
> drwx------ 5 89 89 512 Oct 14 05:16 .root
> drwx------ 5 89 89 512 Oct 14 02:02 .root.44
> drwx------ 5 89 89 512 Oct 14 02:02 .root.Cron
> drwx------ 5 89 89 512 Oct 14 05:16 .root.Hastur
> … etc
>
> Works fine in Mail.app on Mac OS and has for at least 16 years.
I just tested it with my Dovecot 2.2.36 setup. I did set up an account with '.'
as separator and created some folders.
First mail.app succeeded in creating test root folder but when I tried to
create subfolder 'test2' under 'test' Mail.app issued
CREATE "test/test2" folder instead of "test.test2". And then failed to list the
created folder completely.
Everything worked if I did set separator to '/'
Sami
