[Dovecot] namespace and list=children inconsistencies

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Fri Dec 17 15:49:30 EET 2010


On Thu, 2010-12-16 at 01:38 +0100, Holger Mauermann wrote:
> . LIST "" *
> * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "INBOX"
> * LIST (\Noselect \HasChildren) "/" "Shared/user at do.main"
> * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "Shared/user at do.main/INBOX"
> * LIST (\HasChildren) "/" "Public"
> . OK List completed.
> 
> . LIST "Shared/" *
> * LIST (\Noselect \HasChildren) "/" "Shared/user at do.main"
> . OK List completed.

This is a bug since it doesn't show the Shared/user at do.main/INBOX. I'll
look into it.

> . LIST "Public/" *
> . OK List completed.

This is expected.

> namespace {
>   list = children
>   location = cydir:/var/spool/imap/public:INDEX=~/public

You really shouldn't be using cydir. It's mainly intended for testing
and for learning how to implement a Dovecot storage backend. You should
use sdbox instead.



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