MBOX-Line: From tss at iki.fi  Mon Jun 25 07:24:10 2007
To: imap-protocol@u.washington.edu
From: Timo Sirainen <tss@iki.fi>
Date: Fri Jun  8 12:34:40 2018
Subject: [Imap-protocol] Mailbox root name
In-Reply-To: <1182779912.3768.174.camel@hurina>
References: <1182779912.3768.174.camel@hurina>
Message-ID: <1182781450.3768.176.camel@hurina>

On Mon, 2007-06-25 at 16:58 +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> 1 LIST hello/world/ ""
> 
> It returns "hello/" as the mailbox root, even if hello doesn't exist.
> Why? Does Pine really depend on this? I remember I changed Dovecot to do
> this a few years ago because Pine wouldn't work otherwise correctly with
> ~/mail/ or mail/ or similar folder collection paths (I used to return ""
> as root). Now that I'm looking over the code I'm just wondering why.

Looks like I can't reproduce this anymore. Maybe there were other things
that caused Pine to break. So is it OK then if I return mailbox root =
namespace prefix, and if there is no prefix then just return ""?

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