mailbox listed twice

[Brenden Conte]

This looks like the problem arises if there is a child mailbox that starts 
out exactly the same as the parent, and only the next character in the 
child string after the end of the parent string match is a space.

Or, (!strncmp(parnet,child,strlen(parent) && child[strlen(parent)+1] == ' 
');

Is that a correct analysis?

-Brenden

--On Thursday, November 03, 2005 06:54:22 PM -0500 Ken Murchison 
<murch at andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:

> Patrick Radtke wrote:
>>
>> On Nov 3, 2005, at 1:57 PM, Ken Murchison wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> For some of our users I see the following when listing their mailboxes.
>>>>
>>>> user.des2004.Professors and Faculty (\HasNoChildren)
>>>> user.des2004.Professors and Faculty (\Noselect \HasChildren)
>>>>
>>>> The mailbox is listed twice. Sometimes clients (Apple Mail) get
>>>> confused by this (sometime you can store messages in the folder, and
>>>> other times you can't)
>>>>
>>>> Mailbox is only listed once in the mailboxes.db
>>>>
>>>> Anyone know why this happens?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Can you capture the actual LIST/LSUB command?
>>
>>
>> Same deal with mailbox listed twice
>>
>>  > imtest -t "" -a cyrus -u des2004 localhost
>>
>> Authenticated.
>> Security strength factor: 256
>> c list "" "P%"
>> * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "Professors and Faculty"
>> * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "Professors and Faculty Fall 03"
>> * LIST (\Noselect \HasChildren) "." "Professors and Faculty"
>> c OK Completed (0.000 secs 4 calls)
>> c list "" "P%.%"
>> * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "Professors and Faculty.Professors and
>> Faculty Spring 04"
>> c OK Completed (0.000 secs 2 calls)
>
> This is a problem with ' ' sorting before '.'.  There is a known problem
> in that Cyrus uses the ASCII sort order to compare mailbox names, but
> wants the hierarchysep character to sort first, which it doesn't in
> ASCII.  This is something that I need to fix.
>
> The sort-term solution is to tell your users to not use spaces in mailbox
> names.
>
> --
> Kenneth Murchison
> Systems Programmer
> Carnegie Mellon University
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Brenden Conte
System Programmer, C&MT.CIO
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
(518)276-4264