Re: Problems changing folder to inbox with Courier 0.46
Sorry for the lateness of this reply; I found this in my postponed
folder (which I haven't looked at in a while....) I don't think the
patch mentioned was applied, or this would be completely irrelevant,
rather than mostly irrelevant.
Since that this is from four months ago, I probably trimmed too much.
Oops. Let's see...the problem was that if one tries to change to the
folder "=" with a Courier imap server it used to work (possibly with
different kind of server) and now doesn't.
On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 04:58:54PM -0400,
Matt Larson (mlarson@xxxxxxxxxxxx) said:
> Is there any reason mutt adds the trailing dot in the SELECT command?
I would guess because no-one expected anyone to try to refer to a
mailbox consisting solely of the path to the mailboxes. "=" wasn't
originally supposed to be a mailbox; when you refer, say, to "=sent",
that gets translated into something like"/path/to/mailbox/sent". It
just so happened that the way the namespace is set up in imap, "="
means something. Well, almost; courier now adheres more closely to
the spec, and the strange thing you were doing no longer works. ;-)
The "normal" thing to do would be to change to the folder "!", I
think.
> If not, I propose that the patch be adopted to change this behavior.
What I said in the previous paragraphs notwithstanding, I have no
objection to it.
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