At 2004-06-02 16:25:07 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > So If I'm connected with user a, I will always have the current > directory /users/a and the incoming client Reference Name will > always be ""
The client can send whatever reference name it wants. OK, let me try to explain this differently. When you login as user a, suppose your "current working directory" is /users/a. Think of LIST as the equivalent of ls(1). Saying "LIST /foo bar" is like doing "cd /foo; ls bar". That's the same as "LIST / foo/bar": "cd /; ls foo/bar". That's the same as «LIST "" /foo/bar»: "cd ~; ls /foo/bar". That's the same as "LIST /users/b/x /foo/bar": "cd ~b/x; ls /foo/bar". And so on. You can think of the reference name argument to LIST as allowing you to change directory before doing the ls, thus providing a context for the interpretation of the mailbox name. Obviously, if the mailbox name is already fully-qualified (as in examples 3 and 4 above), the reference name does not affect its interpretation. -- ams
