Tickets :: Comment on [#6984] pb showing folders named INBOX.*

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Comment	>> I have a folder called ".INBOX.Sent" > > > > How is that a legal mailbox name? In that mailbox, your base > namespace would necessarily have to be '' (blank). As such, that > mailbox is correctly identified as 'INBOX.Sent', NOT '.INBOX.Sent'. > You simply can't have an empty mailbox name. See RFC 3501 [7.2.2]: > > > > The hierarchy delimiter is a character used to delimit levels of > hierarchy in a mailbox name. > > > > By definition, a mailbox name is 1 or more characters. See RFC 3501 [9]: > > mailbox = "INBOX" / astring > > astring = 1*ASTRING-CHAR / string > > ASTRING-CHAR = ATOM-CHAR / resp-specials > > > > Additionally, this mailbox requires that its parent is the mailbox > ''. However, that mailbox name is reserved by list as a method to > determine what the hierarchy delimiter is for a given reference (RFC > 3501 [6.3.8]): > > > > An empty ("" string) mailbox name argument is a special request to > > return the hierarchy delimiter and the root name of the name given > > in the reference. > > > > Your mailbox is invalid. I don't see a need to workaround invalid > mailbox names. I don't care if other mail programs can handle it or > not either.
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