60197 - IMAP needs to escape folder names with '/', the canonical hierarchy separator.

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(MailNews Core :: Networking: IMAP, defect, P2)

Description

[David :Bienvenu]

IMAP needs to escape folder names with '/', the canonical hierarchy separator,
when dealing with folders with '/' in the name (and unescape them when
generating urls).
 This is not a problem on Netscape IMAP servers, because '/' is the hierarchy
delimiter, but it is a problem on servers with other hierarchy delimiters. The
code claims to expect the '/'s to be escaped, but I can't find any code that
actually does the escaping, even back to 4.5.

Comment 1

[Karen Huang]

Isn't this bug dup of bug 56489 or bug 29926?

Comment 2

[David :Bienvenu]

No, it's not a dup, unfortunately for me. bug 29926, as near as I can tell has
to do with CREATING folders that end with '/'. bug 56489 has to do with handling
any hierarchy separator. This bug has to do with handling folder names with our
"canonical" hiearchy separator, which is '/' when the '/' is not meant to be a
hierarchy separator.

Comment 3

[Karen Huang]

OK. More clear now.
Thanks for the explanation.

Comment 4

[David :Bienvenu]

adding mail3 keyword

Comment 5

[David :Bienvenu]

changing priorities

Comment 6

[Scott MacGregor]

sr=mscott

Comment 7

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

r=sspitzer 

Comment 8

[Wei-Lee Jamrog]

This is a feature blocking bug for the Lotus Domino IMAP server NAMESPACE 
feature.

In Notes, user's full name always includes domain name.  For example, Wei-Lee 
Jamrog/Iris.  That is how we want to display other users' namespace.  Without 
domain name that means users can only see other users that are in the same 
domain which is not practical at all.

Without this fix, we are seriously limit the scope of NAMESPACE.

Comment 9

[David :Bienvenu]

fixed so that we can display and read those folders with slashes in the name on
servers where the hieararchy delimiter is not '/' (this fix only affects servers
where the hiearchy delimiter is not '/', e.g., the Cyrus servers, and the Lotus
Domino server).

There are still some bugs - you can't create folders with '/' in the name on
these servers, and the subscribe UI is confused about these folders. I'll open
separate bugs on these.

Comment 10

[Karen Huang]

Yes. Verified the fix on our in house Cyrus server which with "." hierarchy 
separator. Build 12-22-09-Mtrunk.
I am marking as verified for this bug now. 
Wei-Lee, if problem is still occurring on your Lotus Domino server, please 
reopen this bug then.

Comment 11

[Karen Huang]

There were other issues which already addressed on bug 63038 & bug 63039.