Re: IMAP + Server-side subscription

On Tuesday 09 February 2010, Orivej Desh wrote:
> > > MailCollector folder is not visible in the list of all folders
> > > and accounts on the left, but it is present in local and
> > > serverside subscription lists of the gmx dIMAP account in kmail.
> > > 
> > > Here is a snippet of a console imap session:
> > > 
> > > * OK GMX IMAP4 StreamProxy ready
> > > 0 login **** ****
> > > 0 OK 62655841 logged in
> > > 1 list "" "*"
> > > * LIST () "/" "INBOX"
> > > * LIST () "/" "MailCollect/[email protected]"
> > > * LIST (\Noinferiors) "/" "Drafts"
> > > * LIST (\Noinferiors) "/" "Sent"
> > > * LIST (\Noinferiors) "/" "Spam"
> > > * LIST () "/" "Trash"
> > > 1 OK Completed
> > 
> > The name of the folder "MailCollect/[email protected]" is probably
> > confusing KMail. Maybe it splits the name at the '/'. Can you
> > capture an IMAP session between KMail and the GMX server with
> > Wireshark so that we can find out what KMail does?
> 
> Thanks, Wireshark seems to have revealed gmx server bug.
> 
> KMail, as shown by wireshark, uses different commands to list folders
> and to actually check mail. 'list "" "*"' for the first and 'list ""
> "%"' recursively for the second. Now, this is how imap.gmx.fr
> responses:
> 
> 1 list "" "%"
> * LIST () "/" "INBOX"
> * LIST (\Noinferiors) "/" "Drafts"
> * LIST (\Noinferiors) "/" "Sent"
> * LIST (\Noinferiors) "/" "Spam"
> * LIST () "/" "Trash"
> 1 OK Completed
> 
> It ignores MailCollect! I'll contact GMX support anytime soon.

Thanks for the feedback!

It seems as if GMX should report MailCollect as a folder, so that 
clients (like KMail) that do not fetch all folders in one go, but 
recursively when needed, can access the MailCollect folders.


Regards,
Ingo

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