Hi, Jon. :-) On Fri, 12 Sep 2003, Jon Atkins wrote: >Additional SUBSCRIBE commands in the same session don't add more duplicates. >Logging in again and issueing a new SUBSCRIBE causes all current entries to >be duplicated.
There was actually a discussion on the IMAP protocol mailing list some while ago about duplicate entries in the LSUB response. Here's Mark Crispin's (protocol author) response: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg00758.html In short the protocol (as of rfc2060 6.3.6) states that the SUBSCRIBE command should add entries to the list of subscriptions. Crispin complains that Cyrus, Courier-IMAP and Communigate Pro rather insert-or-replace, which is not the same as an "add" and therefore wrong. The client that does an LSUB on an entry that is already subscribed to is the peer with the bug. The server does what it is supposed to, and since the client's request is silly, the server's response may seem silly too. Now you _have_ discovered a bug in SUBSCRIBE/LSUB/UNSUBSCRIBE which I will fix. But this is the fact that subscribing to multiple mailboxes within the same session doesn't quite work, and that unsubscribing to such mailboxes also fails (within the same session). But the behavior of allowing duplicate entries is something I have allowed by design. :-) 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."
