[Dovecot] LIST command claims children exist in empty folder

[jsiegle at psu.edu]

On Thu, 26 Mar 2009, jsiegle at psu.edu wrote:

> On Thu, 26 Mar 2009, Jonathan Siegle wrote:
>
>> 
>> On Mar 25, 2009, at 8:42 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote:
>> 
>>> On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 07:52 -0400, Jonathan Siegle wrote:
>>>> On Mar 24, 2009, at 11:36 AM, Jonathan Siegle wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Dovecot 1.2 (8834:5284f45c249a)
>>>>> 
>>>>> Should list return \HasChildren if no folders exist under it? I'm
>>>>> using mbox format.
>>> 
>>> Is this really a problem?..
>>> 
>> 
>> alpine/pine can't delete empty folders because the empty folder 
>> \HasChildren.
>> 
>>>> Here is my patch.
>>> 
>>> Problem with that is that it doesn't return any children flags when
>>> using LISTEXT command:
>>> 
>>> 1 list (subscribed) "" % return (children)
>>> 
>>> Fixing this would require adding new code to fs_list_subs() to scan the
>>> subdirectory if children flags are missing. list_file_subdir() handles
>>> that for non-subscription listing, but it can't be directly used for
>>> subscription listing.
>> 
>> ok thanks. I'll look at that today.
>> 
Sorry for the tripple! I didn't type what you typed. I understand the 
problem now.
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