Tickets :: [#315] Forward Slash Characters / Stop folders from displaying on MS Exchange

6.0.0-beta1

9/24/25

Summary	Forward Slash Characters / Stop folders from displaying on MS Exchange
Queue	IMP
Queue Version	HEAD
Type	Bug
State	Not A Bug
Priority	1. Low
Owners	Horde Developers (at)
Requester	mail (at) avenuedesign (dot) net
Created	06/18/2004 (7768 days ago)
Due
Updated	09/02/2004 (7692 days ago)
Assigned	09/01/2004 (7693 days ago)
Resolved	09/02/2004 (7692 days ago)
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Patch	No

09/02/2004 07:57:27 AM	Jan Schneider	State ⇒ Not A Bug

09/01/2004 08:42:46 PM	Chuck Hagenbuch	Comment #10	Reply to this comment
Yes, Outlook (in exchange/corporate mode, not standards mode) is the only way I've been able to create a folder with a forward slash.

09/01/2004 08:42:18 PM	Michael Slusarz	Comment #9	Reply to this comment
And rereading what I just wrote, I added nothing to Chuck's analysis :) I guess my comment is simply that I agree with Chuck's reasoning and that there is most likely no way to work around this.

09/01/2004 08:40:54 PM	Michael Slusarz	Comment #8	Reply to this comment
Aren't these folders with the forward slash being created via Outlook? If so, Outlook doesn't use IMAP to connect to an Exchange server. So maybe it's a case that Microsoft's proprietary Exchange connection protocol allows forward slashes while IMAP doesn't, so exchange simply doesn't offer the folder name when connecting via IMAP.

09/01/2004 08:34:26 PM	Chuck Hagenbuch	Comment #7 Assigned to Horde Developers Taken from Chuck Hagenbuch State ⇒ Feedback	Reply to this comment
I'm stumped. I've verified that I can, in fact, make a folder with a / in it through Outlook. But when I connect to the exchange server directly via IMAP and do a: 0 LIST "" "" ... which should list all folders, the ones with "/" in the name simply aren't listed. It's as if Exchange knows that it can't really get away with allowing folder names containing /, so it fudges it and pretends they don't exist to standard clients. So unless someone can point out something I'm missing, I don't think this is an issue that is a). IMP's fault, or b). anything we can work around.

07/25/2004 02:20:59 PM	Chuck Hagenbuch	Comment #6 State ⇒ Assigned Taken from Horde Developers Assigned to Chuck Hagenbuch Priority ⇒ 1. Low	Reply to this comment
Okay, I'll have a look at some point next week at work where I have access to an Exchange server.

07/25/2004 09:24:50 AM		Comment #5 New Attachment: Screenshot.jpg	Reply to this comment
I can assure you it is possible to have a forward slash in the actual folder name itself. Please advise if I can be of assitance in debugging this.

07/25/2004 09:24:49 AM	mail (at) avenuedesign (dot) net	Comment #4	Reply to this comment
I can assure you it is possible to have a forward slash in the actual folder name itself. Please advise if I can be of assitance in debugging this.

07/24/2004 06:27:08 PM	Chuck Hagenbuch	Assigned to Horde Developers Priority ⇒ 1. Low State ⇒ Assigned

07/24/2004 04:53:09 AM	Chuck Hagenbuch	Comment #3 State ⇒ Feedback	Reply to this comment
This report doesn't really make sense. Forward slashes just mean a subfolder to Exchange, and I've done that successfully before. If folders aren't showing up, it's either an exhange issue or a configuration issue.

06/18/2004 08:18:56 AM	Jan Schneider	Comment #2 State ⇒ Assigned	Reply to this comment
Possibly yeah, but no developer currently has an Exchange server to test this, so someone who has one has to fix it.

06/18/2004 07:02:15 AM	mail (at) avenuedesign (dot) net	Comment #1 Priority ⇒ 1. Low Queue ⇒ IMP Type ⇒ Bug State ⇒ Unconfirmed	Reply to this comment
While I understand some mail clients do not allow you to put a forward slash in a mail folder. MS outlook/Exchange does. These folders are not appearing in IMP. Is it possible to fix this?