MBOX-Line: From tss at iki.fi  Sat Jul 11 22:24:31 2009
To: imap-protocol@u.washington.edu
From: Timo Sirainen <tss@iki.fi>
Date: Fri Jun  8 12:34:42 2018
Subject: [Imap-protocol] copy to same mailbox
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On Jul 12, 2009, at 12:47 AM, Mark Crispin wrote:

> I just discovered that the GroupWise IMAP server does not permit the  
> target of a COPY command to be the selected mailbox.  GroupWise has  
> other issues, but apparently nobody has ever complained about this.
>
> Do other servers prohibit COPY to the selected mailbox?

Dovecot with mbox format doesn't allow it, because it caused it to  
crash and I never bothered to fix it. What's the point of doing that  
anyway?

