63 lines
2.2 KiB
Plaintext
63 lines
2.2 KiB
Plaintext
MBOX-Line: From David.Harris at pmail.gen.nz Fri May 23 21:09:43 2014
|
|
To: imap-protocol@u.washington.edu
|
|
From: David Harris <David.Harris@pmail.gen.nz>
|
|
Date: Fri Jun 8 12:34:52 2018
|
|
Subject: [Imap-protocol] Creating subfolders in Gmail
|
|
In-Reply-To: <537FEFE5.4040103@comaxis.com>
|
|
References: <537FEFE5.4040103@comaxis.com>
|
|
Message-ID: <53801B87.29010.51A00D5@David.Harris.pmail.gen.nz>
|
|
|
|
On 23 May 2014 at 18:03, Jeff McKay wrote:
|
|
|
|
> Has something changed with how Gmail handles the hierarchy character
|
|
> in the CREATE command? I am sure I had this working at one point, but
|
|
> now:
|
|
>
|
|
> CREATE "TopLevelFolder/"
|
|
>
|
|
> generates "NO hierarchy character ignored"
|
|
|
|
The server would appear to be in error. See RFC3501, section 6.3.3 ("The
|
|
Create Command"):
|
|
|
|
If the mailbox name is suffixed with the server's hierarchy
|
|
separator character (as returned from the server by a LIST
|
|
command), this is a declaration that the client intends to create
|
|
mailbox names under this name in the hierarchy. Server
|
|
implementations that do not require this declaration MUST ignore
|
|
the declaration. In any case, the name created is without the
|
|
trailing hierarchy delimiter.
|
|
|
|
This seems pretty unambiguous to me, but no doubt there's an alternative
|
|
reading I haven't considered (there usually is). I assume GMail actually
|
|
*does* support submailboxes (I don't personally use it)?
|
|
|
|
Interestingly, the example for section 6.3.3 is an almost exact match to your
|
|
report:
|
|
|
|
Example:
|
|
C: A003 CREATE owatagusiam/
|
|
S: A003 OK CREATE completed
|
|
|
|
Note that there is a reverse condition to this where a server may report a
|
|
mailbox with a trailing hierarchy delimiter as part of a LIST response; I
|
|
confess I've never understood exactly what that means (Exchange used to
|
|
do it and may still do so) - Mark Crispin once explained it to me as having
|
|
some meaning related to a test for existence, but I couldn't grasp what he
|
|
meant.
|
|
|
|
Cheers!
|
|
|
|
-- David --
|
|
|
|
------------------ David Harris -+- Pegasus Mail ----------------------
|
|
Box 5451, Dunedin, New Zealand | e-mail: David.Harris@pmail.gen.nz
|
|
Phone: +64 3 453-6880 | Fax: +64 3 453-6612
|
|
|
|
Real newspaper headlines from U.S. papers:
|
|
TRAFFIC DEAD RISE SLOWLY
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|