On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 12:22:18AM +0100, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > On Sun, Jan 26, 2020 at 10:09:03PM +0100, Guillaume Brogi wrote: > > Thanks for the confirmation. I ended up connecting to the IMAP server > > manually and removing that weird inbox/\ folder. It contained a single, > > and recent, message that I moved to the regular inbox. > > Not sure what happened to create that folder, but now it works and I had > > to learn how to read messages, move them and delete folders in IMAP. > > > oh, with that description it's actually easy to guess what happened: > you created that folder by attempting to move that message to inbox/ via > another mail client (web interface?), and accidentally hitting the backslash > right before enter - that happens to me all the time with US keyboards > (where the backslash is right above enter, while on german keyboards enter > extends into that space). the server simply accepted the backslash as a > folder name, which is somewhat unhelpful, but completely legal. the problem > begins with the fact that the imap server simply fails to quote backslashes > in folder listings (and quite likely other places as well). > Probably something like that. Though I don't see why I would have moved this message and it was still unread. Still, glad this is solved :D
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