Ken Murchison wrote:
>
> Nick Sayer wrote:
>
>>Ken Murchison wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Nick Sayer wrote:
>>>
>>>>Hey great! This will let me work around MacOS X's Mail program's stupidity
>>>>in this regard. Before I set up alt namespace, I couldn't get to any of my
>>>>folders besides the INBOX! Doesn't anyone read an RFC anymore before they
>>>>write software? Sheesh.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>Who? Me or the Mac guys?
>>>
>>Sorry for the ambiguity. The problem lies in the MacOS X Mail client,
>>NOT in cyrus. When you try and select a subfolder, you get an error back
>>that "folder/subfolder" is not an acceptable mailbox name to the server.
>>Well, of course it's not! :-) alt namespace was required before I could
>>look at anything other than INBOX because, for example, I would get an
>>error saying that it couldn't select "INBOX/Sent". Now I can get to all
>>of the first level folders because they can be selected without
>>separator chars, but I anticipate that I will be able to get to all of
>>them with the unix separator patch. But if Apple had been able to read
>>an RFC, none of it would be necessary at all.
>>
>
> I'm confused. Are/were you running a patched version of Cyrus that
> created folders with '/' as the separator? My stuff is NOT compatible
> with anything that actually stores folder names containing '/' in the
> mailboxes DB (like David Fuchs' patch). The whole premise of my
> alt-namespace and hier-sep is to not change any of the on-disk files.
No. It's just cyrus with the namespace patch.
MacOS X's mail client is stupid. It tries to do a
10 SELECT INBOX/foo
despite the fact that the LSUB/LIST output said "INBOX.foo".
This behavior is clearly stupid.
You're being blinded by an expectation that the client was not written
by morons. :-)
