MBOX-Line: From arnt at gulbrandsen.priv.no  Wed Apr 12 04:29:26 2006
To: imap-protocol@u.washington.edu
From: Arnt Gulbrandsen <arnt@gulbrandsen.priv.no>
Date: Fri Jun  8 12:34:37 2018
Subject: [Imap-protocol] LIST Clarification
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Vladimir A. Butenko writes:
> a LIST "Mark%"
> * LIST "Mark Crispin"
> a OK
> b LIST "" "%CRISPIN"
> * LIST "MARK CRISPIN"
>
> The later is a questionable practice, but it definitely has more 
> merits than returning unmodified "Mark Crispin" as our server (and, I 
> guess, yours) is doing now. The "Mark Crispin" string would confuse a 
> client that does not expect that string to match the "%CRISPIN" 
> pattern.

Do you know that for a fact? Which client(s)?

Arnt

