[sylpheed:32491] Re: Missing IMAP Subfolders

Hiroyuki Yamamoto hiro-y at kcn.ne.jp
Fri Jul 11 18:24:30 JST 2008


Hello,

On Wed, 9 Jul 2008 11:01:36 +0900
Hiroyuki Yamamoto <hiro-y at kcn.ne.jp> wrote:

> You're correct. I have changed the implementation of IMAP folder scan
> to use 'LIST "" "*"' instead of 'LIST "" "%"' at 2.4.6.
> It seems to break compatibility with some IMAP servers.
> 
> > For Thomas White it's the same problem. Folders "Academic" and
> > "Theatre" are not recognised as root folders.
> > 
> > On the contrary, for example Google Mail returns all root folders
> > separately.
> > 
> > Which behaviour exactly is IMAP4 compliant remains to be
> > investigated.
> 
> I'm not sure which is correct, but I'll fix it anyway.

Made a workaround in svn trunk by adding non-existent parent folders
at folder scan.

-- 
Hiroyuki Yamamoto <hiro-y at kcn.ne.jp>


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