Outlook 2013, imap folders & altnamespace

[Thomas Cataldo]

To follow up, I found the solution.

Outlook does not like cyrus response to XLIST "" "".

Cyrus does:
C: . XLIST "" ""
S: . OK Success

What unlocks outlook capability to create top level folders :
C: . XLIST "" ""
S: * XLIST (\Noselect) "/" "/"
S: . OK Success

We fixed the problem with an override of the XLIST command on in our imap proxy.

Regards,
Thomas Cataldo.



On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 4:15 PM, Thomas Cataldo <tcataldo at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a "simple" problem. When using altnamespace: yes, outlook 2013
> lets create folders in your imap account, they look like real imap
> folders but they are _local_ folders. Outlook never sends the CREATE
> command. Worse than that, if I delete the folder, I now have
> Trash/theFolder, and outlooks issues SELECT "Trash/theFolder", which
> fails as the folder never was on server.
>
> Switching to altnamespace: no, everything works and the CREATE command are sent.
>
> Tried on imap.gmail.com and on exchange2010 imap and folders are
> created correctly on both.
>
> Any idea ?
>
> Regards,
> Thomas Cataldo.