Cyrus bug when returning mailbox names

Rob Siemborski rjs3 at andrew.cmu.edu
Thu Apr 3 13:45:46 EST 2003


On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Ian Macdonald wrote:

> [ianmacd at baghdad]$ telnet cyrus 143
> Trying 1.2.3.4...
> Connected to cyrus.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> * OK babbage.corp.google.com Cyrus IMAP4 v2.1.12 server ready
> . login tommy password
> . OK User logged in
> . list user.tommy.Agencies *Realty*
> * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "user.tommy.Agencies.Bay Area Agencies.Street Media.VIP Realty"
> . OK Completed (0.000 secs 2 calls)
>
> [root at babbage root]# ls -ld /var/spool/imap/user/tommy/Agencies/Bay\ Area\ Agencies/Street\ Media/VIP\ Realty/
> ls: /var/spool/imap/user/tommy/Agencies/Bay Area Agencies/Street Media/VIP Realty/: No such file or directory
> [root at babbage root]# ls -ld /var/spool/imap/user/tommy/Agencies/Bay\ Area\ Agencies/Street\ Media/VIP\ Realty\ /
> drwx------    2 cyrus    root          552 Aug  9  2002 /var/spool/imap/user/tommy/Agencies/Bay Area Agencies/Street Media/VIP Realty /
>
> Is there a simple way to rename this mailbox without the space, so that
> attempts to perform operations on it do not fail? Maybe it's as simple
> as renaming it at the file-system level, as Cyrus seems to think it
> lacks the space, anyway.

How was this mailbox created?  I can't duplicate this behavior with a
simple case:

x create "inbox.xyzzy "
x OK Completed
x list "" "inbox.xyzz*"
* LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "inbox.xyzzy "
x OK Completed

-Rob

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