Re: [Imap-protocol] Creating subfolders in Gmail

I don't see any error message in the Gmail code for "hierarchy character
ignored". When I try to reproduce this, I see something different:

a create foo/
a OK [CANNOT] Ignoring hierarchy declaration (Success)

This seems to follow 6.3.3.


On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 9:09 PM, David Harris <[email protected]>wrote:

> 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 --
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