user folder

[Bron Gondwana]

Date:   Tue Oct 19 14:08:28 2010 +1100

     Release 2.4.2

There were numerous bugs in early 2.4 versions related to configurations 
which I hadn't used, and which hadn't been tested enough when developing 
it.  As others have said, 2.4.2 is very early 2.4 series, and had many 
bugs.  2.4.12 is much better.

Bron.


On 10/11/2011 11:57 AM, Gabriele Bulfon wrote:
> Hi
>
> I'm using cyrus in production for years, recently I'm working on a new 
> distribution with a new
> update cyrus, built from sources.
> Previous version was 2.3.16, new version is 2.4.2.
>
> On the previous version, you could issue 'LIST "" user' to the imap 
> server and receive this response:
>
> A0 LIST "" user
> * LIST (\Noselect \HasChildren) "." "user"
> A0 OK Completed (0.260 secs 419 calls)
>
> In the new version the response is different:
>
> A0 LIST "" user
> A0 OK Completed (0.030 secs 202 calls)
>
> This open up a problem to our web app using JavaMail, when it tries to 
> list the shared folders from
> other users.
> The code examines the user namespaces and finds "user".
> Then it asks JavaMail to list the folder "user" to obtain the list of 
> users sharing something.
> Debugging the IMAP transaction, I see JavaMail trying to do the above 
> command first,
> then, after receiving the response, it will issue a LIST "" user.% and 
> go on.
> Now, because the above command answers with nothing, I can't seem to 
> find a correct way to
> list the "user" magic folder.
>
> Why has this changed in Cyrus?
> Is there any way I can let it work as before?
>
> Thanks,
> Gabriele.
>
>
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