Re: Docus for IMAP folders

Sam Varshavchik <[email protected]> Sun, 29 Oct 2023 15:58:00 -0400
Newsgroups	gmane.mail.imap.courier.general
Message-ID	<[email protected]>
Helge Kreutzmann writes:

> >
> > Check its settings for anything that says something like "show only
> > subscribed folders", and turn it off.
>
> It's off. And I run "update list of folders" multiple times.
>
> When I run "update list of folders" I see the following IMAP messages:
>
> WRITE: 3 OK LOGIN Ok.
> READ: NUMBER: 4
> READ: ATOM: CAPABILITY
> READ: EOL
> WRITE: * CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 UIDPLUS CHILDREN NAMESPACE  
> THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT THREAD=REFERENCES SORT QUOTA IDLE AUTH=PLAIN ACL  
> ACL2=UNION ENABLE UTF8=ACCEPT
> 4 OK CAPABILITY completed
> READ: NUMBER: 5
> READ: ATOM: LIST
> READ: QUOTED_STRING:
> READ: QUOTED_STRING: Maildir.*
> READ: EOL
> WRITE: 5 OK LIST completed
>
> As my mail is in ~/Mail/, does this mean K-9 is looking in ~/Maildir/?

No, it's not looking anywhere. "Maildir.*" is not a valid folder pattern for  
Courier-IMAP.

> (And if there are some fine docs I'm supposed to read, pointers are welcome).

The documentation would be this mail client. This one, for some reason, is  
not configured correctly.

Courier-IMAP's folder namespace starts with "INBOX", not "Maildir". Try  
looking for anything in the client's configuration where this setting  
appears.

However, the client should not need to be configured at all, in the first  
place. RFC 4466 was published in 1998. Since 1998 any IMAP client can  
correctly configure itself, for any IMAP server, simply by asking the server  
what its folder namespace is.

* OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 UIDPLUS CHILDREN NAMESPACE AUTH=PLAIN  
THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT THREAD=REFERENCES SORT QUOTA IDLE SMAP1 KEYWORDS ACL  
ACL2=UNION STARTTLS ENABLE UTF8=ACCEPT] Courier-IMAP ready. Copyright  
1998-2022 Double Precision, Inc.  See COPYING for distribution information.
a login **********
a OK LOGIN Ok.
a NAMESPACE
* NAMESPACE (("INBOX." ".")) NIL (("#shared." ".")("shared." "."))
a OK NAMESPACE completed.

After this sequence this IMAP client has everything it needs to know to do a  
LIST INBOX.*

Why it wants to do LIST Maildir.*, I don't know, it must be something with  
its hardcoded configuration.

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