Re: [Evolution] The problem with evolution and cyrus

[Matthew Vanecek <linux4us home com>]

Viljo Viitanen wrote:
> At first, I must say that I have not taken a look at the Code, so I may be
> wrong.
>
> The problem seems to be that evolution uses "/" as a hard-coded imap mailbox
> hierarchy delimiter. That sucks.
>
> Sere's a snip of the log of evolution 0.4.1 trying to connect to cyrus (after
> login):
>
> sending : A00001 CAPABILITY
> received: * CAPABILITY IMAP4 IMAP4rev1 ACL QUOTA LITERAL+ NAMESPACE UIDPLUS
> X-NON-HIERARCHICAL-RENAME NO_ATOMIC_RENAME UNSELECT X-NETSCAPE
> received: A00001 OK Completed
> sending : A00002 LIST "" ""
> received: * LIST (\Noselect) "." ""
> received: A00002 OK Completed
> sending : A00003 LIST "" "./.*"
> received: A00003 OK Completed
> sending : A00004 SELECT /
> received: A00004 NO Mailbox does not exist
> sending : A00005 EXAMINE /
> received: A00005 NO Mailbox does not exist
> sending : A00006 CREATE /
> received: A00006 NO Invalid mailbox name
> sending : A00007 LIST "" /
> received: A00007 OK Completed
> *** Message -- FINISH Scanning folders in "imap://vviitane localhost/"
>
> The first LIST, tag A00001 is a special query that is used to find of the
> delimiter. Cyrus responds ".", which evolution seemingly completely
> misinterprets.
>
> Then, evolution goes and tries to list "./.*", when it should be (as have been
> said on the list) asking for "*" (as the 'path' setting is empty, no need for
> delimiter).
>
> Here's how raw imap LIST looks on cyrus, the first line being my command and the
> rest its response.
>
> 0 LIST "" "*"
> * LIST () "." "INBOX"
> * LIST () "." "INBOX.crap"
> * LIST () "." "INBOX.crap.crappiest"
> 0 OK Completed
>
> Evolution developers, please fix this. I'll buy you beer if any of you ever is
> in Helsinki :)
>
> Oh, and one other thing. Evolution should really be looking for "INBOX" (it's
> the special mailbox name for.. well, the inbox) instead of "/" when in doubt.

I posted similar a short while back, with links to straces, IMAP
sessions, etc.  The subject was "[Evolution] Cyrus IMAP, unkilled
processes".  You may give it a look-see to see if there's anything else
to add--Hopefully the one person who responded to it is working on it.