On Friday, November 16, 2001, at 04:16 PM, Andy Bradford wrote:
> Hey all, > > It seems I always get the good ones. At any rate, I have setup > courier-imap and it has been working great. I have also setup sqwebmail > on the same server and it works great. People can read their email using > an IMAP client in the office and check their email using sqwebmail when > on the road. There is a small problem, however, in the webmail > interface. If in the Netscape client one creates a folder with a > trailing `.' then it will no longer be possible to login to the webmail > interface. For example, I had a user create a folder named ``OEM > Info, Oppts.'' which caused sqwebmail to fail after login. If using > Netscape, the browser would return an error message to the tone of ``A > communications error occurred; Please try again'' and the login could > not proceed to the folder window. Internet Explorer just locked up. I > assume this is because subfolders are delimited by `.' and webmail was > unable to parse the subfolder after the `.' which didn't exist. So, is > this a bug or a violation of some protocol? Does IMAP dictate which > characters can or cannot be used in a folder name and if so, is this a > violation? (Now is a good time for me to read the IMAP RFC... :-) > > Thanks, > > Andy While your issue doesn't appear to be addressed here: http://inter7.com/courierimap/BUGS.txt, you might want to try compiling courier-imap with --enable-workarounds-for-imap-client-bugs and see if it fixes it. If I don't compile with that, my Netscape users have problems and complain. Regards, Bill Shupp
