Thus said "Sam Varshavchik" on Fri, 16 Nov 2001 21:01:34 EST: > I presume that you are using Courier-IMAP with Netscape.
Yes. We also have some Outlook and Eudora users as well. This particular user uses Netscape. > So, it's not clear exactly what you did. Perhaps looking at the > actual maildir contents would yield a more accurate picture. Well, I'm not entirely certain how the user created the folder, but since he uses Netscape it must have been through there. I have not been successful at recreating the problem with Netscape, however, if I create the maildir with maildirmake I can reproduce the sqwebmail error. I also know it was not possible for this user to use maildirmake because no shell access is allowed. I do have one theory. This particular maildir looks like it was pulled over from an older version of courier-imap; the only version information I have is from the imapd.config: # $Id: imapd.config.in,v 1.9 2000/02/15 05:16:08 mrsam Exp $ So, I'm guessing that this version of courier-imap must have created the maildir with the trailing dot and then when I rsync'ed all the old folders onto the new mail server it kept it around. I will ask the user when this folder was created, but there are only two interfaces with which it could have been created: sqwebmail or Netscape->courier-imap. > And yes, Netscape should not accept an explicit request to create > folders that contain a hierarchy separator separator. How does Netscape know that `.' is the heirarchy separator? Is this part of the IMAP RFC that I haven't yet read? ;-) This is the only user it has happened to so it isn't a problem. I have been unable to reproduce it using Netscape at this time. At any rate, thanks for your time. I don't think this is worth discussing any longer unless it happens again. :-) Andy -- GnuPG ID 0xA63888C9 (D2DA 68C9 BB2B 26B4 8204 2219 A43E F450 A638 88C9) [-----------[system uptime]--------------------------------------------] 8:18pm up 55 days, 4:13, 6 users, load average: 1.00, 1.00, 1.00
